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HebrewHammer14 t1_j7yue13 wrote

Reply to comment by DUIguy87 in Exonerees in Mass. state drug lab scandal want their seized property and money back by ak47workaccnt

How would you invest in the community? Which communities are we speaking about? I agree that just throwing money at police isn’t necessarily the answer, especially considering that I’d be worried about where that money would be taken from. I’m not for bolstering police if it meant something like taking away social programs for kids. Maybe something they could do would be to invest more money in the schools. Pay the teachers better and just in general invest more money into the future generations.

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DUIguy87 t1_j8090yp wrote

Social programs for kids would be great. Community centers, local sports leagues, increased access to daycare. I’d go so far as to say more in the way of increased rent support or food subsidies for families in low income brackets, and smoothing the transition between income brackets and aid granted so there are no disincentives to advance professionally.

There is certainly a correlation between absent parents/broken families and crime. As such I feel that policies that help keep parents with their children are worth prioritizing, a parent working 70+hrs a week to support their family is still an absent parent despite how noble their cause is.

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