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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by Retric on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:03PM (#35457232)
Cities crime rates have little to do with their local politics. Giuliani for example got a great deal of praise for lowering crime in NYC but wildly different approaches also seemed to “work” in other cities.

Look at a graph of murder rates for LA vs NYC and their surprisingly similar even with very different politics. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/18/us/chicago-mu...

Chicago, NYC, LA, and many other US cities all had similar trends over similar time periods which line up with national trends. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd...

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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by Yhippa on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:12PM (#35457346)
Aren’t the politics very similar?
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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by Retric on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:16PM (#35457415)
NYC had “tough on crime” republican governor’s for about half of that time period. Try and locate their policies on the graph before looking up the details.

“Broken Windows” policing was a radically different paradigm that initially got a great deal of praise because it seemed to be working.

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