TheAJx t1_je0k68k wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:27 PM

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I would like to do both, mainly because they are both important goals independent of each other.

I'm not particularly convinced about the povert -> crime argument in this case, given that poverty rates went down during COVID thanks to massive government cash infusions.

SuckMyBike t1_je0kwe5 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:32 PM

How on earth can someone in 2023 still question the direct correlation between poverty and crime?!
What the fuck .. this is basic knowledge amongst criminologists. Have you never spoken to one?

TheAJx t1_je0oeiu wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:54 PM

Bangladesh and Ghana are pretty poor, but not particularly violent either.

Poverty went Down during COVID yet crime skyrocketed. Poverty went up significantly in 2008 but crime did not spike at nearly the same levels (and went down within a year or two).

> Have you never spoken to one?

You guys are all the same, thinking that sociology professors have all the answers to society's problems. Crimnologists have also found that hiring more police on the streets leads to less crime. Are you in favor of that?

SuckMyBike t1_je0oom1 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:56 PM

>Crimnologists have also found that hiring more police on the streets leads to less crime.

Actually, criminologists concistently find that repression is a very weak correlator with reducing crime rates.

But what do you care. You just invent your own facts based on your gut feeling and then think you know everything. Fuck off