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OldBayOnEverything t1_ix8dqh0 wrote

Reply to comment by JKnott1 in City reaches 300th homicide for 8th year in a row by Maxcactus

Even if we had the greatest collection of politicians the world has ever seen, the underlying problems would be the same. No jobs, bad schools, bad housing situation. People in poverty will always be drawn to crime, anywhere. Combine that with the war on drugs that has created power struggles with gangs competing to control the trade, and here we are.

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Cunninghams_right t1_ixbvngg wrote

>No jobs, bad schools, bad housing situation.

the problem is that the voters won't support any politician actually solving the problems.

you want jobs? make the city more tourist friendly, which means getting rid of squeegee workers, dirtbikers, and heavily policing the tourist areas.

we can't even get our politicians to stop building massive low-income housing blocks that have been proven to be a bad approach for the better part of a century because think housing supply is a problem when the reality is that poor public safety causes our current housing stock to fall into abandonment and disrepair. if you want to fix affordable housing, make people feel safe and it will solve itself. but new strategies for policing are constantly pushed back on by voters.

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YoYoMoMa t1_ixcr3wm wrote

Voters don't like the solutions because they often involve being kind to people they want punished. Just look at how upset people were by the idea of paying kids not to squegee.

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