How would an art museum of that size be profitable in Brattleboro?

Right ? It's been a few years since I've been down there but I thought it was in line with the co-op. And like others have said, definitely an improvement over the shit heap there currently

Advanced degree holder here with concentrations in finance and economics. What you are presenting is a singular stat with no context or controlling for variables. You need to take a course on statistics and understand the difference between correlation and causation.

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Very well said!

I feel like it would match the coop building a little bit. Doesn't feel out of place to me at all.

In my opinion I don’t think police have much of an impact on crime. Sure, the fact that you might get arrested might deter some criminals. But by and large people who commit crimes do so out of desperation because they are out of options and I don’t mean to suggest you have to murder someone to feed your family but the I would say most murders probably have a long history of smaller crimes leading to up to murder. Having good jobs, social programs, and housing for the population will keep crime rates down.

I live in pretty heavily populated area with a high cost of living. Joblessness is near zero and there is little to no crime considering the population. My doors are unlocked and keys left in the ignition of my truck.

My point is if people have opportunity to provide for themselves they would choose that over crime 9 out of 10 times. So the message of defund the police was clouded, all people want was more money spent on community programs instead of out fitting militarized police forces to keep the poors in line.

Again, completely avoiding the point, and topic at hand.

I would imagine that they wouldn't begin until after the new bridge is open. Would make a nice gateway to the future island park.

Right? It would also get rid of the graffiti and hangout spots below them and replace the blight with a boardwalk if I remember the announcement correctly. Much better than the present panhandling area.

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Still 1,000x better than the bistro and massage parlor it will demolish and replace!

My wife and I debate whether the preferred terminology is weird window or witchy window. There is also the Weird Window Brewing Company. We're trying to find the place in the state with the greatest concentration of them. So far I know Moretown has 2 just on the main road.

Having done several long distance moves in my life, I can’t speak more highly of U-Boxes (from U-Haul) plus hiring people via their website. In comparison to the insane quotes I got from moving companies, it was inexpensive and easy. Even though they wouldn’t deliver directly to my house, I rented a U-Haul at the location they delivered the boxes to, packed the U-Haul from the U-Box right in the parking lot, and went home.

Defend the police in general (like from a national stand point) yes, absolutely. However we need to do all the steps, ie if we take funds from the police then they need to go to other services and the amount cut needs to be worked out carefully.

Define the police never meant “boom, budget cut” and that’s it.

It blows my mind how many people on here saying, the homicide rate increase, had nothing to do with defunding the police. That’s just like if people suddenly started becoming deathly Ill, after the FDA allowed a new ingredient to be added into our foods, and after seeing all the adverse, deathly reactions, they decide to remove said ingredient. After a while, no one’s becoming sick, and all returns to normal. Then saying something along the lines of, “ The deadly ingredient had nothing to do with people becoming insanely sick, people were already sick before with the food they were eating”.

Bless your heart.

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Nationally, crime has decreased over those decades you mention. However, murders have increased (nationally) since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

Since these trends also hold in Burlington, I’m inclined to believe “defunding the police” wasn’t as involved as you seem to suggest.

As another commenter suggested, you might find better luck attempting to foster a discussion instead of starting a fight: “I’m concerned about the number of homicides in Burlington over [time period you didn’t include]. This is a notable increase compared to previous years. Is there evidence that the “defund the police” movement caused this?”

Correlation does not imply causation my guy.

I do agree with you, I think police need much longer training then they’re required to do.

I agree, I do believe police need to be trained for far longer and more thoroughly. It should be a minimum of two years of police training in my opinion.

Who got defunded? Their budget was still nearly $20 million dollars annually. Teachers and other municipal workers are forever told to do more with less, so why wasn’t that good enough for police?

Irrespective, I’d double their their budget if most of that money went to continuing education/training and they gave up qualified immunity.