Udolikecake

Udolikecake t1_j9zqs34 wrote

Yeah, it’s really a very small minority committing the vast majority of crimes.

Boston did a great program in the 90s to solve this and it was wildly successful. Been done in many cities.

> In Boston, for example, which at the time had a population of roughly 556,180 people, approximately 1,500 individuals were identified as comprising 61 separate groups. This 0.3% of the population was responsible for 60% of the city's homicides.

This holds true in many cities. Like 1000 problem kids do 60-80% of all the killing. Targeting them and getting them off the streets does wonders. They focused all their resources into a few hot spots with these criminals and almost entirely eliminated youth gun violence.

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Udolikecake t1_j9wwjcy wrote

I mean there’s been like a dozen robberies on 18th and Columbia in the last month

the Streets has been robbed I think three times at this point, and the manager was beaten. They have a guard now. People certainly don’t feel quite as safe, and justifiably so.

I don’t feel unsafe, but the elderly woman I talked to the other day who was robbed in broad daylight may

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Udolikecake t1_j20jeg2 wrote

>We were both trying to discretely look at each other before our flight while we were in line together

> If we find her and it works out, we’ll invite everyone to the wedding and I’ll buy all the drinks / mocktails!

jesus mary and joseph

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