Should funding for local police departments be redirected to social and community based programs?
If someone with a gun comes into my home to hurt me...then I'm dead. What good are the police going…
The most significant root cause of crime is poverty, which we solve not through further incarceration, but by improving the material conditions of the public as a whole. Guaranteeing quality food, shelter, healthcare, education, transportation, and all the other basic human needs for a fulfilling and healthy life in the modern world would do infinitely more to prevent crime than any amount of violent police presence can.
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