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  1. Aug 2023
    1. She said the eventual goal was to close that gap and create a system where someone like Alicia, who might have been arrested for fighting or shoplifting, could get shelter, cash and an identification card immediately. At least on that Friday, Rachlin said, the alliance “provided a moment of safety.”

      Wanted to be able to provide an equal opportunity for everyone where they could turn their life around instead of just calling the police right away where they could potentially prejudge people and ruin their entire lives.

    2. As she ate her meal, Rachlin called the city’s mental health hotline.

      Instead of calling the police right away they got her the help they believed she need based on what they were witnessing, and were annoyed when told to call the police but they believed that was the wrong choice for the situation based on past experiences so they did what they could to help her and make sure she was safe, believing that there was a chance the police would not do that for her.

    3. His past, along with his calm, straightforward approach, helps him navigate conflicts. During one Safety Alliance week, he persuaded a man going into a bodega with a gun to give him his weapon and go home. The next day, that same man returned, but this time to volunteer.

      Those with a past were able to turn it around and help others not make the same mistakes they made, making areas gain the peace that citizens were looking for.

    4. homicides fell 50%, shootings fell 25% and the rate of grand larcenies of automobiles also fell even as it rose in other neighborhoods, he said.

      Shows that the eliminated the police on calls they were not necessarily needed for and eliminated gun violence crime rates decreased instead of increased like everyone thought would happen.

    5. “A lot of people worry that if police systems are not fully active, crime will go up

      Many people are nervous that with police being less active and changing that the crime rate will start to increase, however if more people want peace it is achievable.

    6. which aims to reduce the use of armed officers to handle many calls.

      People want to make it known around the country what they did to try and help other places gain the peace they are looking for and less gun violence and prejudging with police.

    7. “It’s like they left us without protection,” she said. “It doesn’t give me peace.”

      Police are not answering all the calls and responding making citizens feel unsafe

    8. not necessarily a badge

      You don't need a badge to get what you want, but just be nice and don't assume things about others and don't use force and you will be able to keep the peace.

    9. “They say, ‘We feel more safe. We can walk without feeling anxiety,’” he said. “While they know that we do need police, it’s possible that we can police ourselves.”

      People believe that if police are just going to abuse there power they should just do there jobs themselves instead, so things dont get prejudged.

    10. Over the next three years, the city will provide $2.1 million to help link the local organizations that participate most frequently in the Safety Alliance so that they can work cohesively throughout the year.

      The city is trying to make it a better and safer place to live, but also trying to get the citizens to play a role and see the problem, but also people may be more trusting of the safety alliance's as they are made out to be better people then the police are being made out to be with, judging situation's before they even get to the scene.

    11. Police channel all 911 calls from that area to the civilians

      Police are making it seem as if specific areas are less important then other areas when in reality they should respond to all the calls they get no matter where they are located.

    12. I believe that some police choose to abuse the power they, and will prejudge many people and just make assumptions without knowing what really happened, making many situations escalate quickly, when in reality they should not be a big deal.

    13. Would making the change so that police are only called when they are necessary make the difference to get the peace people want or will the crime rate and violence caused by them not change at all?

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    1. While the world is going back to being closer to how it was before the pandemic while crime rates start to decrease or will they stay the same, or keep increasing?

    2. “STAR is an example of a program that has worked for those it has had contact with,” said Denver City Council member Robin Kniech. “It is minimizing unnecessary arrests and unnecessary costs — whether that be jail costs or emergency room costs. It has done so for less than 1 percent of the calls coming into the city that it might be eligible for.”

      Is this a similar program to the Safety Alliance?

    3. Things began to shift about a decade ago, when a few district attorneys set up post-conviction integrity units, which looked at old cases to see if defendants had been wrongly tried.

      Many people are trying to make sure the right people are being arrested with innocent people not and if they are they do what they can to get them out as soon as possible (Innocence Project).

    4. “Not only have the police been defunded in some places, they've been demonized and face a more difficult environment to do their jobs,

      Police's jobs became a whole lot more difficult because the media only advertised the bad things that they were doing, and not all the good things they were trying to do as well.

    5. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous social indicators have moved in the wrong direction. Suicides, drug overdoses and traffic fatalities have all increased, while school enrollment has plummeted. Many criminologists also believe the pandemic drove up some categories of crime.

      Due to the pandemic in 2020 many people believe it made the country worse and is going to be hard to come back from weather it is the eduction, or the crime rates, drug use, etc.

    6. The answer is not to defund the police,” Biden said during his State of the Union address in March. “The answer is to fund the police … with the resources and training they need to protect our communities

      Some people believe that instead of defending the police they should get more money to train officers correctly and to not use unnecessary force.

    7. he order did not go as far in terms of holding police accountable as a bill stalled in Congress — or a draft order the administration considered earlier this year.

      They are trying to make a change in the police system to make it more fair for everyone and to get rid of the unnecessary violence but some police refuse to listen and still go back to what they want to do instead.

    8. The U.S. homicide rate increased by 30 percent in 2020 — the biggest single-year increase in more than a century — and continued to rise in 2021.

      Is the homicide rate only increasing in the United States or is it increasing in the whole world by the 30% rate?

    9. In the United States in 2022, mass shootings — generally defined as four or more people being shot or killed — are a more than daily occurrence

      Would there be a decrease in mass shootings if the country were to be more strict on being able to get a gun, or would they stay close to the same?

    1. Could increasing police presence increase more people feeling safe, if police are doing what they are trained to do, or will police continue to abuse there power?

    2. Does the area, rural or city, make a huge difference in crime rates, violent, property, or public crime, or is it more based on police presence and violence?

    3. And there is a lot of research also showing that we can get a much bigger bang for our policing buck if we engage in things like hotspots policing, where we concentrate police resources in areas that have the highest crime rates.

      Police tend to go where high crime rates are and not pay as much attention to lower crime rate areas, instead of having them go all around.

    4. increasing the number of police.

      Would this increase people feeling safe or make people feel more unsafe if they are using lots of unnecessary violence?

    5. And if you look at a thing like bail reform and you measure it with the conservative algorithm, you’re going to get a different output because liberals are just measuring different things about what’s important to them.

      Depending how you look at it the crime rate could change based on how people measure it, so it could change from person to person?

    6. where crime shouldn’t happen and that there is places where crime — not that it should happen, but like, it’s expected there.

      Many people see areas and what it looks like and get scared because they expect crime, when in reality any area has the chance of a crime happening.

    7. Fear is a biological response. It’s a primal human response.

      Many people get scared when they get unsure of what happened and many people use it to their advantage so they can be successful or safe in some cases.

    8. And what that signals to me is that nobody’s in charge in this public space.

      Everyday activates that some people choose to take part in, make others feel unsafe or unsure whats going to happen, not letting people get the peace they want in the country.

    9. target violent criminals, which get a lot of the attention

      Depending on the crime committed will determine the amount it is talked about and how much people will care about it.