> Eliminating poverty with redistribution and active labor market policies would mean fewer targets.
I think you'd need to prove the direction of causality here to be convincing.
> Making policing an easier job would attract less problematic people.
What are "problematic people"? I find this judgment to be very, very troubling. Is it that "problematic people" are becoming police officers? Or that something about the job is causing problematic behaviors in people like you and I?
> Hiring a lot more cops and banning guns would greatly reduce the stress cops are under.
This seems downright preposterous to me. Guns aren't a significant cause of death for cops. Cars (including their own cars) are a far bigger threat. Moreover, there is no evidence to suggest that places where guns are materially banned enjoy less police corruption. Chicago has has some of the most draconian gun laws in the nation for decades and also has a police department indistinguishable from a criminal cartel by most measures.
> The cops in prosperous, egalitarian places are generally pretty chill, so the idea is to recreate those conditions.
Again, I suspect the causality may run in the other direction.
I think you'd need to prove the direction of causality here to be convincing.
> Making policing an easier job would attract less problematic people.
What are "problematic people"? I find this judgment to be very, very troubling. Is it that "problematic people" are becoming police officers? Or that something about the job is causing problematic behaviors in people like you and I?
> Hiring a lot more cops and banning guns would greatly reduce the stress cops are under.
This seems downright preposterous to me. Guns aren't a significant cause of death for cops. Cars (including their own cars) are a far bigger threat. Moreover, there is no evidence to suggest that places where guns are materially banned enjoy less police corruption. Chicago has has some of the most draconian gun laws in the nation for decades and also has a police department indistinguishable from a criminal cartel by most measures.
> The cops in prosperous, egalitarian places are generally pretty chill, so the idea is to recreate those conditions.
Again, I suspect the causality may run in the other direction.