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[–] Vhaine 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

So the cops stopped fewer people, but crime rates remained the same. Doesn't that mean crime has actually gone up?! We know a) cops were stopping more people for minor offenses through 'active policing', b) some percentages of those stops resulted in arrest, and c) the entire reason people were upset in the first place was because they felt bored cops were drumming up charges to keep their boot on peoples necks. If all things were equal, we should have seen a decrease in crime because the cops were generating some number of arrests themselves for trivial crime.

So if the cops cease a certain percentage of stops by reduced 'active policing', the arrests associated with those stops should be stricken from the numbers. Yet crime remained steady. That means some portion of reported crimes have actually increased to compensate for active policing in that area being reduced. That's the only conclusion that makes sense, because only an ivory tower liberal idiot would actually think for a second that people living in Ferguson have all of a sudden comes to some stark realization that cops are their buddies and they should report all the bad guys that live in their neighborhood now. BLM loves cops now, right?

They say it didn't result in increases in violent or property crime rates, well the numbers have to come from somewhere. That means drugs.So serious crime has gone up and trivial annoyances like loitering, jay walking, traffic violations, and all the other 'active policing' crimes are being replaced by what the left considers "REAL" crime. Just not real enough to get someone shot or your tv stolen...yet.

Good job. That's the kinda liberal results we expect from the left. Can't wait to move to Missouri now.

2 years is to short a time to draw any long term conclusions on a macro level. I have no idea what you were trying to insinuate by posting this, but the conclusions these likely liberal professors reached are incorrect and the entire thing reads like a conclusion in search of facts.

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[–] DukeofAnarchy 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Selling drugs isn't a "serious crime". It isn't a crime at all.