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    3 days ago

    Oh, because of the primary driver of most kinds of crime:

    Poverty.

    If you want to lower crime, you lower poverty, you put social safety nets in place.

    Does this solve crime 100%?

    No, but its something like one hundred to ten thousand times more cost effective than not doing that and increasing policing instead.

    … America is a country where homeless people routinely commit bank robberies with unloaded guns and then surrender to police … because at least then they get some level of permanent shelter, food, and health care.