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If you look around you and see only criminals, then the only answers you will come up with involve rounding them up, and moving them elsewhere. Those people on

If you look around you and see only criminals, then the only answers you will come up with involve rounding them up, and moving them elsewhere. Those people on the streets that you're 'swimming in' - the homeless, the untreated mental health cases, the drug addicts, the ex cons, the unemployed, the slum dwellers - they are not criminals. Except where catch-22 laws make their existence criminal. They are the marginalized, and made so by the day-to-day actions and inactions of their fellow citizens who look down on them, block them from participating in society at every opportunity. There are well known solutions to these problems: economic, social, and humane. But as long as the voting public can keep coming up with reasons these people do not deserve a proper solution to their problems, you're all going to have to live with the consequences.

orangepurple 4y ago
Pray tell what are these well known solutions? My personal solution is a Glock 9, a body cam, and praying that I can away run fast enough to never have to use either.
- earth_walker 4y ago
  While many of these problems are never going to go away, they are absolutely manageable in a humane way. If you look at cities around the world there are many examples that are as large and diverse as an American city, but much safer and cleaner. Why is that? It's not like they don't have their share of unemployment, mental health or drug addiction. In most cases nothing surprising - just well funded and unhobbled versions of things most North Americans already know about but vote against. Just listen to your local Social Workers and Nurses, they usually have a very good idea of what's missing or critically underfunded. Here are some examples: Homelessness and unemployment: Various social safety nets, affordable housing, back to work and education programs, well funded social work programs Mental health: Treatment, accessibility, in- and outpatient programs, well funded social work programs Drug addiction: Decriminalization, access to safe use, needle exchanges and treatment programs, well funded social work programs Ex cons: Stop giving people lifelong records for drug offenses. Re-entry education and training programs. etc. etc. Maybe you live in a war zone, and a glock really is necessary for you to make it from your condo to your armored car. But until you start looking beyond just helping yourself, things are just going to get worse.

orangepurple 4y ago

Pray tell what are these well known solutions? My personal solution is a Glock 9, a body cam, and praying that I can away run fast enough to never have to use either.

earth_walker 4y ago
While many of these problems are never going to go away, they are absolutely manageable in a humane way. If you look at cities around the world there are many examples that are as large and diverse as an American city, but much safer and cleaner. Why is that? It's not like they don't have their share of unemployment, mental health or drug addiction. In most cases nothing surprising - just well funded and unhobbled versions of things most North Americans already know about but vote against. Just listen to your local Social Workers and Nurses, they usually have a very good idea of what's missing or critically underfunded. Here are some examples: Homelessness and unemployment: Various social safety nets, affordable housing, back to work and education programs, well funded social work programs Mental health: Treatment, accessibility, in- and outpatient programs, well funded social work programs Drug addiction: Decriminalization, access to safe use, needle exchanges and treatment programs, well funded social work programs Ex cons: Stop giving people lifelong records for drug offenses. Re-entry education and training programs. etc. etc. Maybe you live in a war zone, and a glock really is necessary for you to make it from your condo to your armored car. But until you start looking beyond just helping yourself, things are just going to get worse.