A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.
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If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.
What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
Crime is a product of social excess.
The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.
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