As most people know, there’s a heavy police and national guard presence in DC. However, as far as I know, they are just booting people out of DC, not making them disappear.

It stands to reason when the police and national guard presence goes back to its old level that many of the people will just come back, since we haven’t resolved any of the underlying problems that led to all the crime and homelessness.

Keeping all those people posted up costs a lot of money. I would say unless the plan is to have the military permanently occupy every major US city, that we are wasting our time.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a big fan of crime or homelessness, but this just seems like a temporary way to move the problem around at great expense, not to solve it.

Am I missing something here?

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    23 hours ago

    If the president really cared about making America safer I think they would come up with some sort of policy to improved police recruiting. Give incentives, give better training. But he wants to be a dictator, so this is what he’s doing.

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      Or do something about the root causes of crime. Sure, there’s like a minority of sociopaths that will choose a life of crime no matter what, but the majority of it can be avoided by stuff like investments in education, jobs with good pay and safe third places for youth. But all those things are woke and it can take years for the benefits to show, so governments aren’t doing those things.