I'm mad because sad people like yourself are preventing the US from reforming the prison system to be in line with other developed countries.
.instead, you want to keep a prison system that dictators use.

>Crimnologists have also found that hiring more police on the streets leads to less crime.

Actually, criminologists concistently find that repression is a very weak correlator with reducing crime rates.

But what do you care. You just invent your own facts based on your gut feeling and then think you know everything. Fuck off

This post is pathetic. On the one hand you claim that there are a million reasons why crime rates are low in other countries, but then you go and claim that the US crime rate being low is thanks to putting people in prison.

Fucking pathetic.

>I think better policing over the last 30-40 years has been pretty effective. .

10x more people in prison per Capita than Germany and yet way higher crime rates?

You call that a success? Man, your parents must've put the bar for your achievements insanely low

How on earth can someone in 2023 still question the direct correlation between poverty and crime?!
What the fuck .. this is basic knowledge amongst criminologists. Have you never spoken to one?

It sounds like you only want to do the first and not the second.

> We were never truly "tough on crime."

-> US literally has a 10x higher incarceration rate than Germany
-> US was never tough on crime

You're insane

>How do we address the issue of elevated levels of crime in this city?

Let's do that!

Criminologists have been in near uniform agreement for a while now: the biggest cause of crime is poverty.

So if you have any proposals on how to reduce poverty, I'd love to hear them

Crime rates in all other countries dropped just like it did in the US. But they didn't use a "tough on crime" approach to achieve it.

The more likely explanation for why both the US and other countries saw declining crime rates is the banning of lead gasoline and improvements in economic prosperity.

To criminologists, it is also no surprise that crime has been up since the pandemic. Crime rates also saw an uptick during the 2008 financial crisis.

Bad economic times = more crime. Other countries are experiencing a similar uptick in crime without any "bail reform". Surely the recent uptick in crime in Finland isn't caused by NY bail reform, is it?

Every other developed country currently also has their lowest murder rate in a century. But they are locking up 10x fewer people than the US is.

In fact, despite by far having the highest prison population of any country (and it's not even close), the US still has the highest homicide rates of any developed country.

It's almost as if it's not working at all. If locking more people up was working, then the US should have the lowest crime rates of developed countries, not the highest.

As a Belgian, that is heavily involved in alternative mobility advocacy, I can tell you, everyone everywhere complains about the behavior of road users in their city.

NYC, LA, Houston, Toronto, London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, ... Heck, even in my small Belgian city with a 100k population people think we have the worst road users.

Cars complain about cyclists. Cyclists complain about cars. Everywhere.

Studies (both in the EU and the US) that look at how often both drivers and cyclists break the law consistently find that they break the law at the same rate. Being a driver or a cyclist doesn't make one more prone to breaking the law. It's all just confirmation bias.

Turns out, it's just assholes being assholes. Someone who breaks the law while driving isn't going to magically behave when on a bicycle. And vice versa.

The Dutch realized this many decades ago already. So they decided to apply the logic "if people are going to break the law anyway, it's best if they're on a bicycle, not in a car".

After all, a cyclist breaking the law and hitting a pedestrian is bad. But the pedestrian likely lives to rant about it.
But a car driver breaking the law and hitting a pedestrian? High likelihood that pedestrian doesn't live to tell the tale.

When so many kids stop dying, we'll stop being annoying

Carbrain is very weird. Makes people get defensive any time anything negative is said about cars