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bighairymike:
Allowing vast tent cities and the petty crime that goes with it is misguided and only incubates more criminals and repeat criminal behavior.The few available studies indicate the opposite: homeless people and people in "vast tent cities" are more likely to be victims of crime.
The intersection of substance use, homelessness and theft might cause people to blame large encampments for Vancouver's increased property crime. Research in Seattle, however, suggests there's no correlation between camp size and reported property crime.I notice you didn't mention substance abuse.
Charles Lanfear is a quantitative sociologist who has built a model to track changes in property crime as homeless camps grow.
"On average, an increase in the number of tents and structures in an area is not associated with any increases in property crime ' very close to zero," Lanfear says.Contrary to what Fox News tells its viewers every single day, the data show no recent increase in the U.S. violent crime rate. But if all you watch is Fox News, every day looks like a crime wave.
Unless we're talking about mass shootings.
Then, meh.
pewresearch.org - Violent crime is a key midterm voting issue but what does the data say.
columbian.com - Is homelessness a threat to public safety in clark county 