Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Riots Erupt In Portland, Crime DOWN In White Suburbs And UP In Minority Areas Proving BLM BACKFIRED" video.

@SausageFingers420 I hear you. The wisest people that I've known over my 70 years had that intangible "common sense". Sowell has it in spades. Apparently, so does your father which makes you a lucky person.
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@Capneon It's not progress because to arrest people, they need to commit a crime. If arrests are up, then crime is up. THAT'S NOT PROGRESS.
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@Capneon Apparently, they ARE allowing crime to happen in the poorer neighbourhoods because of the social pressure to defund the police AND the consequences to officers if they run into dangerous situations. That's NOT progress. That's correct. However, if those same officers concentrate MORE on suburban areas and arrests, for petty crimes, go up and violent crimes go down, that's NOT progress either. Why? Because it comes at the expense of poor neighbourhoods, mostly minorities, who now don't have the coverage that they deserve and what the suburbanites are getting. You might call that progress but it's not when one segment of the population isn't being served so that another gets extra service. It doesn't say whether petty crimes has increased but it does say that arrests have and you can attribute that to officers, who still want to do their jobs, but can't where it counts the most. I don't see that as progress. Also, if petty crime is up, in the suburbs, that's not progress, either. No matter how you slice it, the new ideas of policing has not helped at all.
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