It's a known principle that crime reporting has increased far faster than actual crime. And I mean, seriously you look at 2020 and think the major story was the police had bad PR? I'm pretty sure something else pretty big happened that year.
The broken window theory is true, arrest and prosecute minor crimes to prevent larger ones.
Perfect example is Jordan Neely who was killed in NYC. He was arrested 40+ times for assault and the prosecutor kept letting him out to continue to terrorize the population. Eventually it ended the only way it could; with his death. Removing him from society would have kept him alive and resulted in a child not being traumatized after an attempted kidnapping and an old lady would not have had her face broken. Daniel Penny was simply the end result of ineffective criminal justice policies.
Cops are an important part of the solution but they can only do so much without a DA willing to prosecute and incarcerate.
voted Dem my entire life (mid 40s) Just realized it doesn't make sense to do so anymore so switched sides a couple years ago. I've lived and worked downtown in a large city for a decade. Drive past addicts every day collapsed in the street that should be in jail for their own benefit and that of others.
You wont admit it but if they took 1% of society and put them in prison we would live in a utopia.
As far as climate change, unless you have a way to force China and all emerging economies to sabotage their own economic development then any changes you make is a puppet show.
Addicts? Whatever happened to personal responsibility? It's not my job to give second chances to violent addicts that can't help themselves.
As far as gun control you can't even get illegal guns away from criminals, confiscating firearms from legal owners would just leave them vulnerable.
All cities with the highest homicide rates have Dem mayors. How's that working out for them?