Your source explicitly talked about COVID as the reason for depolicing. Ah, you see, the New York Times is a "left wing rag" so you have to filter out all the facts that are inconvenient for you and substitute ones that exist in your imagaintion.
Imagination drives a lot of crime talk, as we see with medina's talking points. Though, obviously, guns are a contributing factor to homicides. I don't know why people spend so much time arguing against reality. What do you think policing efforts do? They go after people they think are criminals with guns. Like, WTF?
Medina's logic:
- Guns have nothing to do with homicides
- Depolicing has everything to do with homicides
- We need police to get the guns off the streets
Make it make sense!
Of course the NYT is a left wing rag. Are you denying that?
Even they admitted that depolicing contributed to increased traffic fatalities. They didn't talk about homicides but the same cause had the same effect. Lack of policing led to more felons carrying guns. This is so obvious it shouldn't need explained but since you don't seem to get it, here goes:
If I'm a violent felon and prohibited from owning guns due to my rap sheet my decision of whether or not to carry is influenced by the chances that I'll get stopped. As my chance of getting stopped goes up it becomes less advantageous to carry. As my chance of getting stopped goes down it becomes more advantageous to carry.
Then there is a second-order snowball effect. As more violent felons carry, that influences other violent felons and those adjacent to them to also carry because they feel the need to be able to protect themselves from the violent felons who are carrying.
It is absolutely NOT obvious that guns are a contributing factor to homicides. Talk about imagination. I have countered this repeatedly and you have failed to address it:
- If guns cause crime then there should be a correlation. Do you deny this?
- All those extra guns from 2019-2021 still exist. Do you deny this?
- Since they still exist, if they cause crime, then crime should still be going up. Do you deny this?
- Crime stopped going up once the BLM/Depolicing craze abated despite no decrease in guns. Do you deny this?
Facts
@MaximumSam , try them out.
Medina never said that guns had nothing to do with homicides. They are a tool and Medina supports keeping guns away from violent felons. Medina supports point of use gun control but Medina will NEVER support disarming law abiding citizens.
We need police to do actual police work. They need to be making traffic stops not relying on cameras which only impact generally law abiding citizens and fail to interdict illegal guns, find stolen cars, and arrest people with warrants.
Doing actual police work DOES get illegal guns off the streets. I'm in favor. That stopped because the left pushed depolicing.
The left pushed depolicing and people died as a proximate result. They have blood on their hands.
