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Some countries are struggling with increases in crime rates. Some believe that having more police on the streets is best way to reduce and combat crime. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Combating
crime
 is not solely about deploying more
police
 on the
street
nor
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 sending more
people
 to
jails
, but
also
 it is more about improving the major factors
such
 as financial deprivation and less educational chances. I do believe that
this
 is a much more effective way to
crime
 fighting for the following reasons. There are some major reasons why
both
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deploying more
police
 on the
street
 and sending more
people
 to
jails
 are not the best ways to
crime
 eradication.
Firstly
, it is often found that
people
 dare not to commit crimes simply
because
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 the presence of
police
. Spreading more
police
 on the
street
 doesn't mean that there will be no blind spots for the
people
 to do criminality.
Secondly
, sending more perpetrators to
jails
 will only give them "a temporary lesson" that may lead to other bigger crimes in the future.
Crime fighting
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 is more effective by focusing more on the root causes
such
 as improving financial deprivation and
less
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 educational opportunities. The
first
 predominant factor, financial
issue
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issues
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, becomes the main reason
of
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crime
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the crime
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. For some
people
, they forcedly become thieves or robbers
to
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simply
to
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put
foods
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 on their tables. Apart from that, eliminating social gaps between the wealthy and the poor
people
 makes them perceive equality. Equality leads to contentment feeling that avoids criminalities. As for the
second
 main reason, enhancing the quality of education is believed to improve the quality of mankind in terms of
the
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morality and the skills that can bring them to get proper occupations to get distant from doing crimes. To conclude,
crime fighting
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 is more effective by focusing more on prosperity creation and enhancing education quality than by only deploying more
police
 on the
street
 and sending more
people
 to
jails
.
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