If you are serious about getting rid of violent crime the solution is lock up the violent criminals. And while locking them all up is ideal it is also not necessary. Just lock up the top one thousand and the crime rate would drop by fifty percent.
To the people who say "well, others would just take their place..." yeah, no. This is reality, not fiction. And while crime has it's place violent crime really doesn't. There are plenty of ways of getting the same results through non-violent methods. Make the violent method something that will bring the entire system down on you like a ton of bricks and most criminals will find another way to do business. And the number of violent criminals is finite. It takes a certain mind set to casually murder someone and most people do not have it.
So there is your solution to crime in the big city.
Take it or not. Don't care.
I am staying in the country where we protect what is ours with big dogs and pew-pews.
A big problem is that police are no longer allowed to profile criminals and take preventative actions, like stop-and-frisk of gang members and people who look suspicious in crime ridden neighborhoods. Police have to take a hands off and wait and see stance to crime, so violent crime happens.
Crime prevention methods can do wonders but the police are not allowed to use them anymore in these hoods because of ‘those’ people and the liberals cries of racism. Which is bogus when the police themselves are populated by a large amount of minorities themselves.
Prosecution and incarceration does wonders too and those methods have been thrown away for the same stupid reason... Supposed racism.
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The problem is not hard to solve. Hire lots of police and let them do their job. Build lots of prisons and fill them up.
Problem solved.