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Funding police vs investing in communities
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Tax revenue is finite and can only be spent on a limited number of goods and services within a city or community.
Each year the amount of funding spent on law enforcement in every major city has consistently increased, while investment into public works and back into communities has largely stagnated.
Poverty is the mother of crime, so we might ask if reducing poverty would be more effective at reducing crime rates rather than investing in police force. Individuals who are in prison do not contribute much to society in terms of economic or cultural development, and the US has the largest per capita prison population of any industrialized nation. Many of these people will be made into laborers who will work for little to nothing in what essentially equates to indentured servitude, instead of making larger contributions to society.
Should we be investing more into communities, or should we keep investing heavily into law enforcement?
Each year the amount of funding spent on law enforcement in every major city has consistently increased, while investment into public works and back into communities has largely stagnated.
Poverty is the mother of crime, so we might ask if reducing poverty would be more effective at reducing crime rates rather than investing in police force. Individuals who are in prison do not contribute much to society in terms of economic or cultural development, and the US has the largest per capita prison population of any industrialized nation. Many of these people will be made into laborers who will work for little to nothing in what essentially equates to indentured servitude, instead of making larger contributions to society.
Should we be investing more into communities, or should we keep investing heavily into law enforcement?
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