London is treating knife crime like a disease, and it’s working. London’s Violence Reduction Unit started in 2019 in response to rising knife crime. It has since worked with over a million young people, hospital admissions for knife wounds among young Londoners are down 55%, and teenage murders have fallen by two-thirds. As the mayor, Sadiq Khan, put it: “We cannot arrest our way out of violence.” BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6p9g7l28kd9o
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@alisynthesis Yes, me too! It would be better in every way, more effective, more just, more respectful of human dignity, safer, better at getting people to happy, productive lives, and (as if that weren’t enough) an order of magnitude cheaper.
I often think of the environmentalist saying “Saving the planet is cheaper than wrecking it” something proved time and again by the good outcomes of conservation efforts, and it’s so very much the same with human beings too!
@adapalmer I've been harboring a secret dream that the US will get rid of ICE and put in place a massive behavioral health force.
Probably not, but a girl can dream.