Wait, the police officer union's president thinks defunding the police is a bad thing? Well, I never!
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And before anyone's all "did u even read the article" - yes, I did. And I'm reminded of the absolute peaceful utopia Oakland was before anyone had even muttered "defund the police". Oh wait...
Call me cynical, but you could have 10x that number and not have an officer in exactly the right place at the right time to stop this; that is just wishful thinking. Not saying defunding is the way to go at all, but this is absolutely someone taking advantage of the situation.
This article is taking a few tragic cases and acting like defunding the police caused these murders, when there's no reason to think the police could have stopped them in the first place.
The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.
“The cessation of proactive policing corresponds roughly to the relative decline in crime that earlier research attributed to the effects of mass incarceration,” the authors noted.
The researchers ran the analysis under a couple other models, and the results still held. They examined whether crime underreporting could have biased the findings, and the results still held.
“While we cannot entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting,” the authors wrote, “our results show that crime complaints decreased, rather than increased, during a slowdown in proactive policing, contrary to deterrence theory.”
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And before anyone's all "did u even read the article" - yes, I did. And I'm reminded of the absolute peaceful utopia Oakland was before anyone had even muttered "defund the police". Oh wait...
Never forget when the NYPD went on strike and major crime actually fell https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...
The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.
“The cessation of proactive policing corresponds roughly to the relative decline in crime that earlier research attributed to the effects of mass incarceration,” the authors noted.
The researchers ran the analysis under a couple other models, and the results still held. They examined whether crime underreporting could have biased the findings, and the results still held.
“While we cannot entirely rule out the effects of under-reporting,” the authors wrote, “our results show that crime complaints decreased, rather than increased, during a slowdown in proactive policing, contrary to deterrence theory.”
Go fuck yourself commies.
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