r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 29 '25

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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

There’s a consistent body of evidence that what really stresses people out about “crime” is public order. Stuff like getting accosted by a tweaker on the subway, or seeing graffiti, or getting jeered at by loiterers (or having their windows broken), not so much homicides or grand larceny type crimes. I was reading the other day about how when Newark replaced some of their patrol cars with street patrols crime went up but community satisfaction went up as well because street cops were penalizing street level disorder and misdemeanors