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Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects by superjan on Saturday June 25, 2022 @05:10PM (#31878761)
A great example of positive action was the story of the Oakland Buddha. Intended to discourage littering but in the end cleaned up the entire neighberhood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Buddha https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-15-hes-neutral/

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Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects by antiterra on Saturday June 25, 2022 @05:43PM (#31878963)
2009-2014 sounds a lot like tech gentrification years for Oakland, no?
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Re:Fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspects by zemvpferreira on Saturday June 25, 2022 @05:47PM (#31878987)
As someone who briefly lived in Oakland around that time, both things can be true. It was (and might still be) pretty rough territory while it had us tech people all moved in. The Bhudda effect sure looked real to me.
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