why are the homeless and the mentally ill roving about in the subway? address and solve that and these types of crimes drops drastically, like over 90%. get these people the help they need and get them housing so they're not living on trains or in the subway stations.
people want to act shocked that something like this can happen when something like this is inevitable especially with the amount of people with these issues society has chosen to ignore.
yes this man committed a heinous crime but this is a symptom of a much larger problem and similar crimes will keep happening until the government addresses the underlying conditions that ferment these tragedies.
Y'all really be talking without saying anything:
"But but... we have to identify the CORE problem. And once we identify that and solve that then the problem will be solved!!"
Vague, unactionable truisms that makes people feel insightful and gets daps, but nothing else.
Everyone knows already. The reality is we have to balance it in an environment of politics, budgets, and limited resources. Just fighting the perception that treating symptoms (policing, jailing and punishing) is a zero sum game vs treating core issues (poverty, mental health) is a neverending battle. And it unfortunately colors everything we do. The answer is obviously "do both" but everyone wants to pick one based on their politics, their tribe, the race of the victim and the race of the perpetrator.
that's what I said, but I don't think that differs from any race in the world though whenever someone does something wrong. The distinction itself is pointless, if Black Americans are gonna get blamed anyway there is no point in promoting FBA shyt because nobody cares.
they will say being prominent & successful doesn’t change the fact that you’re black or being a certain shade doesn’t change that you’re black… but being from a different country is the divider.
