You’re minimising the throwing hot coffee in a toddlers face.
No such thing was done. You can find instances of awful stuff happening in any city- anywhere in the world. This is exactly what makes statistics useful.
Statistics can be misleading. The vast majority of incidents aren't reported, and if they are filed they are filed under generic labels.
But anecdotes can be misleading too. The only thing left then is ideology.
This is not a partisan issue, it's a miscommunication.
There's a large chunk of people who think that "Let's take repeat violent offenders off the streets" translates to "Let's take away offered social programs and criminalize being poor", which is not a fruitful dialog.
Amy time you ask to lock up dangerous individuals the response is always that you hate the homeless, you lack empathy and that criminal justice doesn’t work. It’s worse than the gun debate