Progressives Don't Need to Downplay Rising Homicides

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : As a team of scholars at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice noted last year, many so-called Business Improvement Districts already successfully rely on unarmed security guards to deter criminal activity.
46% : But just because police deter crime, it does not necessarily follow that it wouldn't be cost effective, from a public safety perspective, to reallocate police funding to other public goods.
39% : Cost-benefit analyses of police funding uniformly neglect to account for both the social costs of policing and the opportunity costs of investing in cops instead of other social needs.

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