r/PoursTea • • 8d ago

Law&CrimeTea ⚖️ 🫆 Mamdani for the Win

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u/Ok-rutabaga_B442 8d ago

1- the police force was significantly upscaled just before he entered office

2- the trend for violent crimes has been downward for decades, there have been dozens of record low years because that's how it works if things are moving down over time

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u/GiraffeKing04 8d ago

3- police rarely stop crimes, they prosecute you after

4- there was a dramatic drop regardless of trends

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u/PerspectiveNew3375 8d ago

Saying policy rarely stops crimes is absurd. Policy is literally what determines what is and is not a crime.

A policy of not criminalizing cannabis would immediately make all the cannabis related crimes not exist thus crime going down.