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Status Games, Class Warfare & The Psychology of The Rich (ft. Rob Henderson)

Dropping In With Charlie Houpert

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The Effects of Defunding the Police on Crime

I'm curious if there's like cities that did it more or less. Have you looked specifically at data around defunding the police? And if there was an outcome, because I hear you in that, okay, we want to protect the like the poor, the poor people are more likely to be the victims of violent crime. Does it follow that defunding thePolice increases or decreases that likelihood?Yeah, I have seen it. I don't recall the specific numbers on this. But like, if you look at, like, San Francisco, for example, they're shifting away from the defund policies and decriminalizing shoplifting.

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