![]() ![]() We know what works – community investment, credible messengers, focused deterrents that target specific youth and surround them with support. At worst, they’re money pits on the taxpayers’ dime that won’t actually work. These, among other tactics by elected officials around the state, are overreactions at best. If we’re taking a worst of both worlds approach to reducing crime and supporting inner-city youth, the fruits of that labor will look like prison bloat and increased crime. At that event, Lamont cited stricter expectations for probation, GPS tracking for ankle bracelets and secure juvenile detention facilities as solutions to these types of crimes, suggesting that if those tactics had been employed in this case, the teen might still be alive. Pujols said she thought Lamont, during an October press conference, all but blamed a kid for his own death after he was killed by gunfire while riding in the back seat of a stolen car. ![]() Ned Lamont’s vague doubling-down on harsher punishments for youthful offenders with no substantive details. The ones on the table look like New Haven Mayor Justin Eliker’s big brother-style plan to spend $3.8 million on citywide surveillance cameras - which will likely result in a whole lot of watching crime happen rather than crime prevention, or Gov. Right now, both parties are falling short of the call for actual solutions. ![]() I’m eager to see the common-sense solutions elected officials are always talking about - the ones that take facts, research and data into account when crafting policies and allocating funds to address the state’s problems. That thin border between the inner city and the suburb is often highly policed to ensure there isn’t crime creeping into places where it “doesn’t belong.” Policies to beat city crimes back into the downtown area or low-income neighborhoods are all erected in the spirit of security theater, suggesting that as long as the families with the largest lawns feel safe, that’s a job well done. “Everyone’s eager to invest in crime prevention now, but that’s only because the problem, small as it may be, is coming into their neighborhoods,” she said. CT needs more political leaders from marginalized communities. ![]()
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