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j3ychen t1_ix359ic wrote

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

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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