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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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