Harry Sisson
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I don't know.
I'm sure if there's like some streets in LA that you can walk on in the middle of the night and you'd be fine, right?
You could probably walk around the Hills and be fine.
Just like in New York city, you can walk around Soho for the most part in the middle of the night.
I wouldn't recommend it.
I'm not saying people do that, but you'd probably be fine.
Um,
But I also don't think that's, I don't think, I don't really think that's like a political thing.
I think cities are hard to run.
And even if you put a Republican in here, it wouldn't necessarily mean that, oh, crime's gonna come down.
And I think that there can be unintended consequences when you really try to clamp down on crime.
We saw it in the 1990s, early 2000s, where we had this national movement of clamping down on crime.
And then a lot of black Americans got incarcerated.
And they were incarcerated on dumb shit for 20 years, like marijuana possession.
Yeah, well, I mean, it was kind of around that era, kind of continuation of the war on drugs.
And yeah, I think we just have to be...
It's frustrating when somebody I disagree with says that there's a one-stop solution to law enforcement, which it's just not.
It's a complex, multifaceted issue, which requires obviously tough laws, prosecuting people who break them, but also an understanding that life is complicated.
And somebody who shoplifts a can of soup because their family is hungry, should they really go to prison or should maybe there be another solution there?
Yeah, I think the challenges in New York City are vastly different than that of L.A., for example.