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Originally Posted by philly_account12
The results from Tuesday pretty clearly showed that "tough on crime" positions are losing ones for Democrats. House Democrats in NY made distancing themselves from "defund the police" a central part of their campaigns and got destroyed for it. I don't think your position is as popular with voters as you think it is.
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Sure, lets compare a low crime area with a high crime area.
Of course the "Tough on crime" thing didn't work in upstate NY, crime levels aren't anything as drastic as Philadelphia's crime level. A tough on crime stance will net a politician votes in this area because crime is what we are dealing with.
Defund the police was a shitty take and it always will be, what they should have pushed was "Help the police" initiative which provides police tools to help with corruption, mental illness cases, community outreach and etc. You don't fix one thing by taking from another, for example if your water heater is broken, you don't take your stove and put it as a replacement.
Everything has to work together in order for the best results.
But places with low crime shouldn't have a tough on crime stance, they should keep doing whatever they're doing that's working and helping the community be the best it can.
Philadelphia is an excellent city, it just needs all the moving parts to work together to best serve the citizens.