{"id":6483,"date":"2021-11-02T17:31:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2021-11-02T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:31:37","slug":"murders-are-spiking-police-should-be-part-of-the-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6483","title":{"rendered":"Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Last year, the US\u2019s murder rate spiked by almost 30 percent<\/a>. So far in 2021, murders are up nearly 10 percent<\/a> in major cities. The 2020 increase alone is the largest percentage increase ever recorded in America \u2014 and a reversal from overall declines in murder rates since the 1990s.”
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“There is solid evidence that more police officers and certain policing strategies reduce crime and violence. In a recent survey of criminal justice experts<\/a>, a majority said increasing police budgets would improve public safety. The evidence is especially strong for strategies that home in on very specific problems, individuals, or groups that are causing a lot of crime or violence \u2014 approaches that would require restructuring how many police departments work today.”   
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“Problems like poverty, education, and other underlying issues that contribute to crime can take years, or even decades, to truly address.
 The impact of police, meanwhile, tends to happen quickly \u2014 almost immediately deterring and intercepting would-be criminals with the presence of officers. For policymakers looking for quick action, that\u2019s an important distinction, suggesting that police have to play a role even if other social services are deployed for longer-term solutions.”  
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“Every criminal justice expert I\u2019ve spoken to has also said that more work needs to be done to hold police accountable \u2014 and the survey of experts found that most agreed<\/a> more accountability would also improve public safety.
So the evidence doesn\u2019t indicate that America should continue the punitive, unaccountable model of policing that\u2019s dominated over the past few decades. To the contrary, much of the research supports changes to how policing is done to focus narrowly on problems, city blocks, and even individuals known to disproportionately contribute to crime \u2014 contrary to the dragnet approaches, like \u201cstop-and-frisk<\/a>,\u201d that end up harassing entire communities.
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“policing works to reduce crime and violence. But how policing is done can change \u2014 and change could even make policing more effective for crime-fighting while addressing some of the problems to which Black Lives Matter protests have called attention.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22580710\/defund-the-police-reform-murder-spike-research-evidence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Last year, the US\u2019s murder rate spiked by almost 30 percent. So far in 2021, murders are up nearly 10 percent in major cities. The 2020 increase alone is the largest percentage increase ever recorded in America \u2014 and a reversal from overall declines in murder rates since the 1990s.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“There is solid evidence that more police officers and certain policing strategies reduce crime and violence. In a recent survey of criminal justice experts, a majority said increasing police budgets would improve public safety. The evidence is especially strong for strategies that home in on very specific problems, individuals, or groups that are causing a lot of crime or violence \u2014 approaches that would require restructuring how many police departments work today.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Problems like poverty, education, and other underlying issues that contribute to crime can take years, or even decades, to truly address.<\/p>\n

The impact of police, meanwhile, tends to happen quickly \u2014 almost immediately deterring and intercepting would-be criminals with the presence of officers. For policymakers looking for quick action, that\u2019s an important distinction, suggesting that police have to play a role even if other social services are deployed for longer-term solutions.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Every criminal justice expert I\u2019ve spoken to has also said that more work needs to be done to hold police accountable \u2014 and the survey of experts found that most agreed more accountability would also improve public safety.<\/p>\n

So the evidence doesn\u2019t indicate that America should continue the punitive, unaccountable model of policing that\u2019s dominated over the past few decades. To the contrary, much of the research supports changes to how policing is done to focus narrowly on problems, city blocks, and even individuals known to disproportionately contribute to crime \u2014 contrary to the dragnet approaches, like \u201cstop-and-frisk,\u201d that end up harassing entire communities.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“policing works to reduce crime and violence. But how policing is done can change \u2014 and change could even make policing more effective for crime-fighting while addressing some of the problems to which Black Lives Matter protests have called attention.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,299,280,972,285],"class_list":["post-6483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-crime-statistics","tag-criminal-justice","tag-murder","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6484,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions\/6484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}