I hope Mayor DeLoach misspoke when he was quoted as saying We need to have those officers in place now, so that the chief can interrupt that before it gets downtown,
Figuratively walling off sections of the city isn't going to do anything to eliminate crime. It's like giving up the land to secure the castle, only to starve out eventually.
A defensive policing policy only delays the inevitable. It's not a problem you can just throw manpower at either. Aggressive police units divorced of politics and funded community outreach/alternatives are the only way this will actually be solved.
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Figuratively walling off sections of the city isn't going to do anything to eliminate crime. It's like giving up the land to secure the castle, only to starve out eventually.
A defensive policing policy only delays the inevitable. It's not a problem you can just throw manpower at either. Aggressive police units divorced of politics and funded community outreach/alternatives are the only way this will actually be solved.