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NetQuarterLatte t1_ix2fdhj wrote

Reply to comment by j3ychen in Weekly Crime Thread - Week of November 15, 2022 by AutoModerator

I’m pretty sure crimes and quality of life is not a problem for many people in NYC.

I’m also pretty sure that most of those people completely lack the awareness of how privileged their life is (even for NYC standards).

So they are not equipped to comprehend anyone who complains about those things.

To compound the issue, we have the politicization of it: people who have concern about crimes get labeled in all kinds of derogatory or dismissive manner, so the people who is unaware of their privileged start thinking that those who express concern must be malicious or brainwashed by the media / GOP.

I’m also convinced that people who have been downplaying concerns have actually made them worse. And have unwittingly helped the GOP in this past election cycle.

Because the act of dismissing the concern of someone tends to make the concern become more intense. That must have suppressed turnout (for people who couldn’t get themselves to vote republican), or must have increased turnout (for people who could hold their nose and vote republican).

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j3ychen t1_ix359ic wrote

Thanks for the assessment — I think you are right. But that still doesn’t answer the question of what the solution is.

It seems like people either were saying “Stop listening to Republicans” or “Vote Republican” (or some other variation) during the election season. Now that that’s over, I am wondering if anyone has any non-political ideas of what a solution might look like.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_ix3oavc wrote

I wrote a few in a past thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/yong64/left_unmonitored_in_his_cell_he_etched_his/ivfq98g/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

In addition to those, I believe the solution should include what progressives used to advocate for:

  • Increase trust in the police (such as having police officers that reflect the demographic of the communities, increase community relationships, etc)
  • Diversion programs, summer work programs
  • Stronger educational systems, better teachers (was there any insight from Teach For America?)
  • Improve family stability (to address the disparity of many POC growing in a single-parent home)

But what we have today is the advocacy of approximately the opposite:

  • too much denial that a problem even exists
  • dissemination of distrust in the police
  • weakening of schools/education (such as the exaggerated “rights” of a few students over schools/teachers and the education outcomes of the cohort)
  • “celebration” of single-parenthood and weakening of parents abilities to influence their children
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WickhamAkimbo t1_ix8mbtw wrote

> Because the act of dismissing the concern of someone tends to make the concern become more intense.

Yep. It's one thing to have a problem. It's an entirely worse thing to have a problem and realize that half the population denies its existence and will actively fight attempts to solve it.

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