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>>pseudo+(OP)
I wonder if any of the scientist or commenters in this thread have ever lived in a bad hood. The hoods require more and better policing, the worst offenders, who kill orders of magnitude more people are criminal gangs. You remove police - you'll get spike in homicides.

>>Someon+ts
Yeah, and keep underfunding preventive measures like improved schooling. Who cares if the youth of the hood keep growing up to be offenders -- we can just arrest/kill them with the police!

Throwing police at the problem is only putting a band-aid on the symptoms, but ignoring the root cause. Violence will only beget more violence in the long run.