The Federal Agents and Troop’s are ‘on loan’ to the Nation’s capital….
Like the ocean’s tides?
Once they leave?
The ‘sand’ of crime, violence and homelessness will come right back….
If you don’t deal with the ‘why ?’ of the situation’s…
They ain’t going anywhere….
As with most things of Donald Trump…
This Wash DC thing is just one of his ‘shows’….
In the days since the president deployed hundreds of National Guard troops and federal agents to patrol city streets, crime has continued to drop in Washington. The question is whether the trend will last.
Local politicians, along with people who study crime for a living, say probably not.
In Washington, local elected officials have called President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to fight street crime a power grab — just a temporary show of force unlikely to produce any durable reductions in crime, since leaving hundreds of troops on the ground indefinitely is unsustainable.
“The reason that surges are not particularly effective, and are generally disfavored by crime researchers and others who look at this stuff for a living, is because it’s a resource-intensive way of temporarily reducing crime,” said Thomas Abt, director of the Center for the Study and Practice of Violence Reduction. “If it does in fact reduce crime, that doesn’t address any of the underlying conditions.”
If the president is interested in long-term solutions, experts suggested a number of other ways the federal government could help drive down crime rates in a more lasting way, from funds for training and recruitment for local officers to ideas that are less obviously focused on crime….
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The problem is that “it’s not an earnest effort” by the president to actually reduce crime, said Peter Moskos, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and former police officer in Baltimore.
Mr. Moskos said the federal government could do a number of things if it wanted to help cities lower crime. It could boost funding for grants to recruit more police officers, help clear more cases by dealing with backlogs in testing rape kits and DNA samples, and build national training facilities for the police.
“There’s so much that could be centralized,” he said. “But no one seems to be serious about this.”
Other experts said the federal government could increase funding for the Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, office within the Department of Justice. The program began under President Clinton as part of the 1994 crime bill, and for the last three decades has disbursed grants for hiring new officers and for crime and violence prevention programs, although its budget this fiscal year of $437 million is much smaller than it was in the late 1990s, when it was more than $1 billion….
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David M. Kennedy, a criminologist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said there is a growing body of evidence that reducing gun violence requires a sustained focus on the handful of places where it concentrates. He said that in cities seeing the most significant decreases in crime, like Philadelphia and Baltimore, officials are “using a scalpel, not a dragnet.”
In other words, the opposite of the approach taken by Mr. Trump in Washington.
“Everything in crime strategy is about focus on the people and places that drive crime,” said Adam Gelb, the president of the Council on Criminal Justice, a nonpartisan research organization. “And the current deployment seems to be casting a very wide and unfocused net.”….
Note….
The above IS about dealing with poor, disadvantaged and homeless people…..
A good amount of them of color…..
Donald Trump & Co. do NOT really care about them….
They just want them to go away……