Sunday, April 6, 2008
Comment about cops
Matt Yglesias has a post advocating that there be more cops that walk the beat, as opposed to riding around in patrol cars. My comment here.
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I'm all about community policing in urban (not suburban) neighborhoods. While YOU may not feel safer with a cop on the beat, have you asked how the small business owners in your neighborhood feel about it? I would hope that they interact regularly with their assigned officer and feel much more willing and able to communicate their needs and concerns to the law enforcement. These types of relationships may be able to prevent crime, so that there are fewer calls that need to be responded to in the first place. I put up a post regarding community policing in Berkeley on my blog a while ago.
Again, though that sounds good, I'm not sure what "needs and concerns" the business community would have that aren't already pretty obvious--I mean, there's plenty of homelessness, vandalism, drug dealing, prostitution, public urination, and gang violence all around. I'm not sure what effect having beat cops around would have on these things, unless there were a whole lot more cops (what are they gonna do, arrest five crackheads a night?). But in SF they're just diverting a handful of officers from an already-strained force...so I'm not sure what good it will actually do.
Maybe if SF hired way more cops they could do effective preventative policing, but here I think having more cops is probably the more significant factor in controlling crime, rather than the kind of policing... if that makes sense.
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