tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post3653900306139597760..comments2023-10-30T00:44:05.942-07:00Comments on Governing through Crime: Watching the DetectivesJonathan Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15217567476776700363noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-47041549770994571932007-05-31T09:21:00.000-07:002007-05-31T09:21:00.000-07:00We have poor people moving into our community from...We have poor people moving into our community from urban high crime neighborhoods. It appears that some of them are able to adjust to the new conditions and others are either unwilling to adjust or need assistance in doing so.<BR/><BR/>This is not a new problem so I assume that there is some research on how to help people make such a transition. I would appreciate some suggestions as were such research results can be found.JSNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03375832068193947450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-72115970913228410652007-05-29T20:29:00.000-07:002007-05-29T20:29:00.000-07:00It is silly to have the police collect data that t...It is silly to have the police collect data that they know will be used to evaluate their performance. In the first place they are not scientists and the field of social science is seriously hampered by incomplete and highly suspect data so even trained scientists have a tough time coming to conclusions that have much credibility.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the crime rates did in fact go down. Is it because they caught the criminals and locked them up or did the criminals move to a new neighborhood?JSNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03375832068193947450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-74846960739542886962007-05-29T15:27:00.000-07:002007-05-29T15:27:00.000-07:00I totally agree with the seriousness of the situat...I totally agree with the seriousness of the situation and the fact that community policing may not work when the level of fear and mistrust on both sides is high enough. But at some point the returns on further investment in criminal law solutions, of any kind, become negligible.Jonathan Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15217567476776700363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-10181794783862870322007-05-29T15:09:00.000-07:002007-05-29T15:09:00.000-07:00It sounds very serious if it is cost effective for...It sounds very serious if it is cost effective for the police to install an array of microphones to locate where a gun was fired and an array of TV cameras to detect car theft. It may be that the residents are afraid to contact the police under the circumstances which means that community based policing is not a realistic option. When the police are seriously concerned about being shot they are not in a frame of mind that results in effective community based police methods.<BR/><BR/>The police put a lot of resources into high crime neighborhoods in an effort to improve public safety. Too often that means they move the criminals to some other neighborhood. <BR/><BR/>I have lived in my community for over forty years and during that time I have seen the police with shotguns once (there was a mass murder). I lived in a high crime neighborhood for four months and I saw the police with shotguns about a dozen times. The people who lived there were afraid of their neighbors and were afraid of what would happen to their children. <BR/><BR/>The police were viewed with very mixed emotions by the residents because the police could not tell friend from foe.jsnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105937645101038616noreply@blogger.com