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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by kortilla on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:01PM (#23654997)
> so yeah we are talking about things like pot.

Only if you want to talk about the non-violent half to paint a picture that it’s pointless.

For the sake of discussion, assume pot is legal and those drug arrests didn’t happen. Low income areas still have higher rates of violent crime.

Is your argument that drug criminalization is causing other violent crimes?

Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by catalogia on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:05PM (#23655031)
Drug criminalization causes some but certainly not all violent crime.
Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by cestith on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:05PM (#23655034)
Creating an unregulated black market for which there is high demand always increases violent crime.
Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by godelski on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:23PM (#23655217)
My point is dismissing drugs from the equation is dumb when it makes up almost half the convictions.