No it is not. Reject this line of thinking at all cost. The health of our cities depends on them being places that are both safe and are perceived as such. Without this, they are doomed.
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Replying to @YIMBYLAND
This has been a thing in every major city for as long as locked cars existed lol the only way to prevent this shit is Orwellian policing and criminal penalties (bad). Just don’t leave stuff within public views. Someone yanked $200 headphones out of my car in rural ass Florida once

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It happens everywhere. The right just ignores it when it happens in a red area and exemplify it when it's in a blue one
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I’ve been a victim of crime in red cities and blue cities. Some types of crime are more common in some areas rather than others but it absolutely exists everywhere. Petty car break ins are probably lower on the todem pole. Saying car break ins happening is thinking that needs to be “rejected at all costs” is as childish as if I was a loss prevention leader for a major retailer and said “retail theft and inventory loss is a form of thinking that needs to be rejected at all costs”. I’d lose my job within 24 hours 😂
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Literally no, it hasn’t. The avg third world city doesn’t experience shit like this. The only way to prevent this shit is 1) Locking up repeat offenders and throwing away the key 2) No revolving door justice system 3) A proper social safety net instead of the boomer gerontocracy we have rn
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have you been to said "third world countries" before? this is absolutely not true lol
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Why are criminal penalties bad?
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County jails are substantially full at least in most major metropolitan areas, no one I know wants to pay more in property taxes and income taxes to fund criminal justice more. Arguably the best solution would be re opening asylums. I’ve paid maybe $300 due to car related crimes including co pays in the past five years and i think my taxes would probably go up by over $5,000 annually if we went crazy on enforcement.
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Go to major cities in Noroway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, etc this doesn't happen at all and never has. Other European countries it happens signficantly less than in a America.
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crime still happens in iceland including organized crime but the overall rates are definitely lower in richer countries. to my knowledge y'all usually put mentally ill homeless people in facilities instead of leaving them on the streets which probably helps a lot with petty dumb shit that happens in US cities
Here in austin I cant remember the last time I saw a car with a window busted out. Ik it happens but like not that often. When i visited SF I saw a ton. Lets not just be hand wavey and say "it happens"
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My friend got a Glock stolen out of his locked glovebox in Austin and you can find numerous police reports ever day for parked car petty thefts. It does in fact “happen” in every major city
I would rather take a $50-500 L every could years vs. having my entire life surveilled with flock cams and sentence idiot teenagers to the shit they do in Southeast Asia to criminals
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In reality, it just means stopping recidivism.
Replying to @YIMBYLAND
1% of the population accountable for 63 % of all violent crime convictions. Crime is a choice! pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
I live in a country 3x times poorer than the USA. It doesn't happen here. Then again, we're also 95+% white so it's not really comparable