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DeliMcPickles t1_j9tvbw0 wrote

Reply to comment by Syphon6645 in weren't we just about a year ago talking about needing to fund alternate programs to help our youth instead of just pumping money into the police force? the new governor is increasing a police force? by Syphon6645

And this is the point. You're talking about billions if not trillions of dollars of investment to improve the social fabric, and I'm not even sure how we measure the efficacy of that money. And I agree that this is more along the lines of what's needed, but it will take decades if not longer and politicians think in 2-8 year chunks and so there's no appetite for this. Much easier to just give 1 million bucks for more cops, which doesn't help the cops or the city.

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Syphon6645 OP t1_j9u2err wrote

You aren't wrong! But we didn't get fat overnight and we aren't gonna get skinny one morning in the gym. Funds can reprogrammed and we can get a control of the other spending. Congress passes around a trillion dollar like it's nothing and it scares me. We've gotten so used to it.

A million seconds is 12 days A billion seconds is 32 years A trillion seconds is 31,688 years

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