The Fall of Seattle

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(03-31-2022, 01:50 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: While discussion of policing reforms is a part of the larger criminal justice reform conversation, we can't just consider them synonymous. There is a whole lot more nuance to it than that. Our prison population, for example, is more a product of the continued reliance upon slavery for the capitalist enterprises in this country than it is a result of police actions.

I ain't no sociologist, but it does seem like poverty and a feeling of a lack of upward mobility as a reward for work is what leads to increased crime rates.  We are 40+ years removed from the dawn of the "poor people choose to be poor" propaganda, so we lie in the bed we gleefully made, in a sense.