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Yes we need to address the root causes of the crime problem: poverty, racism, and addiction. Many types of crimes (theft, drug dealing) are caused because peopl

Yes we need to address the root causes of the crime problem: poverty, racism, and addiction. Many types of crimes (theft, drug dealing) are caused because people have been marginalized and have no other means of making money. This is to a large extent caused by racism. Also a lot of crime is related to addiction, which can lead to catastrophic consequences when handled by police.

AtHeartEngineer 6y ago
Also, financial education. Simple things like paying off your credit card before putting money into savings, when it's worth fixing your car or not, or just the basic principals behind how things are priced. I heard a lot about an item only costing X amount of money to make in materials, but the company was charging X*10 for it; many people never learn how and why things get priced the way they do.
syshum 6y ago
While poverty, racism, and addiction. are a factor, the root cause of crime is over criminalization of society [2] that creates a cycle of crime that once started it is very hard to escape from. The thousands upon thousands of sooo called "victimless" crime that it used to dump millions of people in to the criminal system which then society punishes for the rest of their lives by denying them opportunities in all segments of life from Jobs to Housing to access to government assistance. Often time people have "no other means of making money" due to this cycle of over criminalization, they were busted with a small amount of weed, from that point they were a "convicted criminal" where by many employers will deny them a job, schools will deny them admission, landlords will deny them housing, etc. We have a narrative in this nation that a Misdemeanor Conviction Is Not a Big Deal [1], this is a false narrative one that the legal system pushes because they often over charge individuals with felonies then "allow" them to plea out to a "lesser" misdemeanor to improve the efficiency of "justice". The biggest flaw in the system is that we have created so many criminal laws that we need to make the "justice system" an assembly line of contract negotiation [1] https://time.com/76356/a-misdemeanor-conviction-is-not-a-big-deal-right-think-again/ https://time.com/76356/a-misdemeanor-conviction-is-not-a-big... [2] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/overcriminalization-of-america-113991 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/overcriminal...

AtHeartEngineer 6y ago

Also, financial education. Simple things like paying off your credit card before putting money into savings, when it's worth fixing your car or not, or just the basic principals behind how things are priced. I heard a lot about an item only costing X amount of money to make in materials, but the company was charging X*10 for it; many people never learn how and why things get priced the way they do.

syshum 6y ago

While poverty, racism, and addiction. are a factor, the root cause of crime is over criminalization of society [2] that creates a cycle of crime that once started it is very hard to escape from. The thousands upon thousands of sooo called "victimless" crime that it used to dump millions of people in to the criminal system which then society punishes for the rest of their lives by denying them opportunities in all segments of life from Jobs to Housing to access to government assistance. Often time people have "no other means of making money" due to this cycle of over criminalization, they were busted with a small amount of weed, from that point they were a "convicted criminal" where by many employers will deny them a job, schools will deny them admission, landlords will deny them housing, etc. We have a narrative in this nation that a Misdemeanor Conviction Is Not a Big Deal [1], this is a false narrative one that the legal system pushes because they often over charge individuals with felonies then "allow" them to plea out to a "lesser" misdemeanor to improve the efficiency of "justice". The biggest flaw in the system is that we have created so many criminal laws that we need to make the "justice system" an assembly line of contract negotiation [1] https://time.com/76356/a-misdemeanor-conviction-is-not-a-big-deal-right-think-again/ https://time.com/76356/a-misdemeanor-conviction-is-not-a-big... [2] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/overcriminalization-of-america-113991 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/overcriminal...