$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of homeless people

Re:$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of h... by brnt on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:47PM (#38702132)

It doesn't need to be either or, you know. Or even those answers at all. Or a mix.

Question is: where can you start to make positive and effective changes? The answer almost certainly includes education and preventing people from falling into poverty. You can fight and deter crime at the same time. You probably need all of those, but I'm pretty sure fighting crime alone isn't very effective.

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Re:$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of h... by Georgelemental on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:51PM (#38702187)

I agree! But even with the best education and social support, a small minority will still turn to victimizing others, and no progress is possible until they are neutralized.

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Re:$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of h... by brnt on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:14PM (#38702559)

I think getting it down to a small minority would already be great progress!

Not sure getting it down to zero is the right or primary goal though. It sounds like an excellent way to require ever larger budgets and fund some pork machine.

Let's first get it down, then worry about going to zero. Has anyone ever managed zero? At what cost?

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Re:$750 a month, no questions asked, improved the lives of h... by Georgelemental on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @12:35PM (#38711228)

> I think getting it down to a small minority would already be great progress!

We've already reached that point! Crime follows a power law distribution, a tiny sliver of the population is responsible for the vast majority of crime. (The size of the sliver varies, in some places it is 0.1% while in others it reaches 2%, but the vast majority are law-abiding always.)

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