On one hand, there is a political conversation to be had - lots of even D voters are concerned about crime and safety, and D elected officials better be responsive to that. That doesn’t seem to be what you’re referring to.
The discussion here is like many “what ails society” conversations. My complaint is the assumption that if we just committed to “do something” about it, we would solve the problem. Obviously, that is an oversimplification.
Some small number of “progressives” can probably be fairly criticized for an unrealistic, exaggerated desire to eliminate most forms of law enforcement. I think that’s a pretty small group.
My complaint is that the complicated nature of the problem is the problem. It’s not because we are “too soft on crime”. It’s easy to talk about the problem of violence (always a winner, guaranteed to hit home), and ignore how difficult the solution is.
If we could just choose to “do the thing that would prevent this violence” or even knew what it was, this would be a different conversation.
Any coverage of this issue has to respect the nature of this problem and be very very careful about placing blame. That is just not productive.
On one hand, there is a political conversation to be had - lots of even D voters are concerned about crime and safety, and D elected officials better be responsive to that. That doesn’t seem to be what you’re referring to.
The discussion here is like many “what ails society” conversations. My complaint is the assumption that if we just committed to “do something” about it, we would solve the problem. Obviously, that is an oversimplification.
Some small number of “progressives” can probably be fairly criticized for an unrealistic, exaggerated desire to eliminate most forms of law enforcement. I think that’s a pretty small group.
My complaint is that the complicated nature of the problem is the problem. It’s not because we are “too soft on crime”. It’s easy to talk about the problem of violence (always a winner, guaranteed to hit home), and ignore how difficult the solution is.
If we could just choose to “do the thing that would prevent this violence” or even knew what it was, this would be a different conversation.
Any coverage of this issue has to respect the nature of this problem and be very very careful about placing blame. That is just not productive.