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My theory: I'm betting in these communities where people tend to say this, schools are falling into disrepair, classes are overcrowded, and a substantial number
by tenebrisalietum 6y ago
My theory: I'm betting in these communities where people tend to say this, schools are falling into disrepair, classes are overcrowded, and a substantial number of students rely on school free lunch and breakfast for their nutrition.
So it's natural such communities would want less money to go to police, which they probably see as victimizing a community, putting people in jail for low-level drug crimes and messing with people's jobs and livelihood through bail/fines, and more money to go to schools, which they see as helping a community and providing beneficial services.
- hvdfhbj 6y agoIt would seem such communities would be the ones with most to gain from a better funded police force and justice system, one that could permanently remove the criminals from their midst.
- triceratops 6y agoThe US already has the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the developed world. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Maybe these communities have seen what the justice system has to offer and want to try something else for certain classes of problems?