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Defund the police?

Explain It to Me

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Do We Really Want to Put an Armed Person in Charge of These Quality Life Offenses?

There are multiple ways to do this. One is hot spots policing, where you literally just draw police on to a block and they deter violence in that block. Another is problem oriental policing, where policing might focus on a very specific problem in a community. Thitorello: There's no empirical evidence that solving way more murders would actually deter more murders. The thing is, it's a very difficult thing to study in an amirical fashion. They're really, it's the method ist supposed to be really analytical,. Where they actually, like atorate on what they're doing and make sure that what they'redoing is effective.

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