How to fight crime? Among the most sensible things, it would seem, would be putting police where the crime occur. Sounds pretty reasonable. In fact I would bet you that most Americans would agree. And, the whole out the cops where the crimes are happening has a very good history, which of course, greatly triggers the left because the left loves criminals. The Other McCain takes a look at crime, neighborhoods, and common sense policing
One of the things that caused the impressive reduction of crime in New York City in the 1990s was CompStat, where data about criminal activity in the city was compiled and analyzed in weekly reports that gave police detailed information about when and where crime was happening. This allowed police to concentrate their efforts on specific areas at the most likely time to apprehend perpetrators. The CompStat approach was subsequently emulated by other law-enforcement agencies, and thereby helped produce a nationwide downward trend in crime that began in the 1990s and continued for about 20 years, until the “Ferguson effect” took hold during Obama’s second term. The important point is that CompStat, along with other technological advances (e.g., widespread video surveillance), made law enforcement more effective in apprehending and prosecuting criminals. This is why liberal complaints about “racial profiling” and “mass incarceration” are so misguided. If there is a rash of street robberies in a particular location, and victims of these crimes are reporting that their attackers are young black males, the cops trying to prevent these crimes can’t do so by scrutinizing elderly Chinese women in some other neighborhood. Investigations will focus on specific locations, and on suspects fitting witness descriptions.
Tons of great information there be sure to read it all. And take careful note of how President Obama’s often race-based policies on policing cause a spike in violent crime after Ferguson, Mo. And, more recently, after the violence and riots following the death of George “Fentanyl” Floyd, we have seen another spike. The point is that we know what to do, yet when we do those things, the Left fights as hard as they can to stop strategies that lower crime. The left has also gone all in on taking away weapons from the law-abiding, while ignoring many violent crimes. DA’s across many large cities have played softball with violent criminals. Gone to war on bail, harsher sentences, and other effective strategies. Fact is the left fights the law abiding and police harder than they fight violent criminals.
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