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Infinite_Carpenter t1_j0n6xfu wrote

Reply to comment by Grass8989 in 27-year-old woman stabbed to death at Manhattan women’s shelter by Snoo-27930

I’d want them to get the care they needed. Wouldn’t you? Preventing violence requires investing in shelter, education, and housing.

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Grass8989 t1_j0n7c70 wrote

Many homeless people are addicts, which is why they ended up homeless in the first place. There’s a reason why their family doesn’t want them staying with them. If you violently assault someone in a homeless shelter you should have the book thrown at you.

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Infinite_Carpenter t1_j0n7nzb wrote

I agree crime should be prosecuted. No one argued otherwise. Addiction is a treatable disease too.

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Grass8989 t1_j0n7sg8 wrote

Not everyone wants to get clean tho, we can’t allow those people to destroy society.

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shotpun t1_j0nabu6 wrote

Have you ever stopped and thought about why the united states so consistently and so obviously has way more of "these people" than most other places in the world? We have been consistently trying to throw the book at crime since the 1980s if not the 1880s. We have consistently failed to reduce crime in the long term. Crime can be stitched up by police and justice systems but it can be prevented by socioeconomic prosperity for those most vulnerable to cycles of crime. When do we finally realize that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? We can do both.

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