NRO has an interesting and somewhat benighted post here. It points out (rightly) that the traditional social democratic balderdash about unemployment or poverty 'causing' crime is just that. But he then makes the equally balderdashedly mistake of pretending that in for example, Baltimore, it is the cops extra specialicious "spear strategy" that has achieved the 'results'. Last decade crime was going down everywhere and then it was NYC's 'broken widows' strategy that supposedly 'saved the day' - which of course is the opposite of the current spear strategy.
The reality is that when crime goes up, the bureaucrats with guns blame it on society and when it goes down they claim it is because of them. In neither case do the guys that clean up after the shooting stops and it is safe have much impact on crime rates. Cut their budgets.
A lot.
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