I didn't know liberia tried this. I know there has been a ton of successful small scale experiments. The science is in on this; very strong correlation between poverty and violent crime; but unintuitively inverse to the economy. The general thought is that it has much more to do with the 'covet thy neighbours junk' type of issue.
If you're in an economic depression or financial recession, violent crime goes down while poverty increases. It's thought to be because the poor people don't see people bragging or showing off their wealth. Which is also why gangs are all about displaying wealth.
>In Chicago, the murder rate is troublingly high, and the police fail to solve 95 percent of all shootings.
Sounds like the police aren't doing their job. 5% clearance rates is atrocious. As mayor I'd be firing police chiefs by the month until that gets fixed.
The top most priority for a government is to maintain their monopoly over violence. Nobody else is allowed to be violent except the government. It seems to me they are failing at their most fundamental requirement.
>Finding a way to prevent shootings and other violent crimes is an urgent priority — not only in that city, but across the US, as the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, remind us.
5% clearance rate on homicide, assuming true and this is probably not true because it's Vox, is the problem. Police need to do their job and arrest people. Why are the chicago police so bad at at their job? Homicide clearance rates in most of the world are >40%.
>Given that direct interventions like removing guns are largely blocked by political polarization, and trying to crack down on crime after the fact carries with it risks of policy brutality, we desperately need new solutions to the problem of violence.
It's largely blocked because that's idiotic at best. This is the chicago police not doing their job. If the police could just decide to stop enforcing the law until firearms are banned. The incentive would be to stop doing their job, that's terrible. The outcome would certainly be exactly what we are seeing.
If chicago is so desperate for new solutions to the problem of violence? I have a fool-proof way to fix their violence problem very quick. Police aren't doing their job anyway and police virtually never stop or prevent violence when they are doing their job.
Castle laws! Chicago should go in the opposite direction, or perhaps Illinois? Implement castle laws. Get everyone carrying a firearm who is willing to carry one.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] threadIf you're in an economic depression or financial recession, violent crime goes down while poverty increases. It's thought to be because the poor people don't see people bragging or showing off their wealth. Which is also why gangs are all about displaying wealth.
>In Chicago, the murder rate is troublingly high, and the police fail to solve 95 percent of all shootings.
Sounds like the police aren't doing their job. 5% clearance rates is atrocious. As mayor I'd be firing police chiefs by the month until that gets fixed.
The top most priority for a government is to maintain their monopoly over violence. Nobody else is allowed to be violent except the government. It seems to me they are failing at their most fundamental requirement.
>Finding a way to prevent shootings and other violent crimes is an urgent priority — not only in that city, but across the US, as the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, remind us.
5% clearance rate on homicide, assuming true and this is probably not true because it's Vox, is the problem. Police need to do their job and arrest people. Why are the chicago police so bad at at their job? Homicide clearance rates in most of the world are >40%.
>Given that direct interventions like removing guns are largely blocked by political polarization, and trying to crack down on crime after the fact carries with it risks of policy brutality, we desperately need new solutions to the problem of violence.
It's largely blocked because that's idiotic at best. This is the chicago police not doing their job. If the police could just decide to stop enforcing the law until firearms are banned. The incentive would be to stop doing their job, that's terrible. The outcome would certainly be exactly what we are seeing.
If chicago is so desperate for new solutions to the problem of violence? I have a fool-proof way to fix their violence problem very quick. Police aren't doing their job anyway and police virtually never stop or prevent violence when they are doing their job.
Castle laws! Chicago should go in the opposite direction, or perhaps Illinois? Implement castle laws. Get everyone carrying a firearm who is willing to carry one.