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Originally Posted by Biff
This misses the point. I understand that having a building full of cops is not a deterrent because there are no actual cops on the street. Putting actual humans on the street every few block does. Being drunk and disorderly is a crime…except in this city. I believe if the police had an actual street presence these people visibly drunk or high could be removed an taken to a sobering centre before any unnecessary altercation takes place - assault, vandalism, b&e.
It works in downtown Chicago.
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There are hundreds of cops working in the HQ at any given time. Some fraction of them are going to be coming or going at any given time which ultimately means yes, there are cops on the street, it doesn't change much.
Downtown Chicago is not really comparable. Chicago, like many US cities, has a gentrified downtown and the real issues are all in residential neighbourhoods outside the downtown. The police presence is there to make the tourists and business folks feel secure but that's mostly for show because all the issues are on the south side anyway. 700 homicides per year. Homicide rate 5x higher than Winnipeg. Go to Washington Park at night and tell me again about how Chicago solved crime lol.
The police take 8 hours to respond to robberies. They're not assigning cops to go around downtown arresting people for maybe being intoxicated because there are no resources for it and if they had more resources there are bigger priorities they would put them on anyway. 90% of the time those kinds of things can be dealt with much cheaper and much more effectively by expanding outreach programs.
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