LogFAQs > #976367627

You people are unironically supporting going back to 80s/90s Republican policies. What's next, bringing back stop and frisk? Cutting off hands for theft? That's not the way as all actual statistics, studies, and evidence shows that doesn't work. We don't really know what reduces crime other than the things we know that actually do like increasing education, reducing poverty, improving housing, investing in communities rather than disinvesting and deindustrializing which is what causes crime.

I understand that you don't feel safe, that you don't like crime, but what you're suggesting is ineffective at best and actively harmful at worst and is not guided by reality. When you see "stores are locking things down and hiring police, so therefore things are awful" that doesn't take into account those people also going on the same skewed sources you are and lacking the same perspective you lack (i.e. not recognizing that the increasing rates may not actually be increasing or may still be significantly lower than a time you surely think of as safe/better)