Re:PayPal shuttering its San Francisco office
by rpmisms on Thursday April 28, 2022 @04:26PM
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> The crime per capita in Seattle or Portland is still only half that of Nashville
I want to see a source. The 80th time you see drug addicts with their genitalia hanging out, do you call the cops or do you ignore it?
Re:PayPal shuttering its San Francisco office
by ahahahahah on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:02PM
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Personally, I don't think that'd be something worthy of calling the cops on the 1st or the 100th time. Nobody's harmed by it.
If you meant you'd call the cops because you were worried about them, not to punish them, that's a bit more reasonable. Then, it's just that it's unfortunate that the cops are the only service that you can feasibly call when you're worried about someone in that way considering how their response would often be inappropriate.
> As another user mentioned: cash free bail, decriminalizing drugs, those things have little to do with homelessness but do wreck the safety of a city.
It's worth pointing out that even in Western cities plagued by homelessness that crime rates are still pretty low. The crime per capita in Seattle or Portland is still only half that of Nashville. So I don't necessarily see a strong link between being tough on drugs/crime and managing homelessness. I still feel pretty safe in Seattle, but that doesn't change the downtown sucks now.
There's clearly an intersection here between zoning policy, availability of services, and leniency towards crime.