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NutDraw t1_j9g502w wrote

Reply to comment by RiverYuppy in While Happy Trees owner gets arrested, another murder happens just blocks from where drug dealers are allowed to sell hard drugs in the open with impunity by RiverYuppy

I don't think it took a lot of resources given how open they were about it lol The raid itself, maybe but I don't think they needed a team of detectives working the case for months or anything. Stopping street murders though? That takes a lot of resources and ones RPD don't actually control. Lest anyone think I'm actually defending RPD, I actually view the general inability of police to prevent such crimes to be a good indicator that they need to do a lot of stuff differently. I'm just trying to be consistent in acknowledging that there's not too much they could have done to prevent said murder in the first place.

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choicebutts t1_j9j3vie wrote

It takes a lot of work to solve homicides because the public won't talk to the police when they know something.

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NutDraw t1_j9jhsao wrote

Definitely a factor, but I want draw a distinction between preventing and solving crime.

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StillPsychological45 t1_j9jii8h wrote

How would you prevent crime?

Sounds like minority report

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NutDraw t1_j9kcchr wrote

Well, it's been demonstrated over and over again that the best way to reduce crime is to reduce poverty. Social programs for violence intervention, better education, etc have all been better correlated to long term crime reduction than increased policing. As I mentioned, these things are outside the purview of RPD. IMO, police are better equipped to solve crimes than directly prevent it, so there should be a greater emphasis on that (and coincidentally less blame for failing to prevent it than what OP has given them). If the police demonstrated an actual ability to solve crimes and make people's lives better through that over some of the tactics we've seen in the past (there are good reasons these communities avoid involving police), you'd certainly see more cooperation and better relations between these communities and police in general.

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