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?? It almost directly goes to the topic of this thread. A well educated, well fed society is not a criminalized society. A criminalized society is going to have more conflicts with law enforcement. If we're going to have this conversation getting into root causes is probably a good idea.
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Can you point to data that backs that up? As much as we like to mock it, the American education system is actually not that bad. It’s not up to Western European standards, but it’s middling by OECD standards, and better than a lot of countries that have much lower crime rates. If education is such a big factor, why doesn’t Turkey have crime like the U.S? I’m not clear about the relevance of being well fed either. America’s working class and poor are much more likely to be obese than undernourished.
The causes of crime are incredibly complex. Anyone pointing to simple explanations - especially when they fit an ideological narrative - is likely driven more by political motivation than facts.
The Trouble with crime statistics