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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh, because of the primary driver of most kinds of crime:

Poverty.

If you want to lower crime, you lower poverty, you put social safety nets in place.

Does this solve crime 100%?

No, but its something like one hundred to ten thousand times more cost effective than not doing that and increasing policing instead.

... America is a country where homeless people routinely commit bank robberies with unloaded guns and then surrender to police ... because at least then they get some level of permanent shelter, food, and health care.