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One of the things I often talk about with my audience is that there is a difference

between things that we can know and things that we cannot know. And oftentimes in our society,

we will find that people will put things in the we don't know category, but these are things

that we actually can learn. We can actually know. We can actually experience. We have data to

support the answer to those questions.

So I think that framing is really important because if you think about it, we know how to do things like keep community safe.

We have data to support how to keep community safe. We've got examples of successful efforts to keep community safe, to reduce crime, to reduce violence, and to increase

prosperity for community members. We've got plenty of examples of that. That is a knowable thing.

There are methodologies that are tried and true and tested and researched and data supported,

and those are things that we can know. In this world, because there are also things we don't know,

we should make a clear distinction between what we can and what we cannot know. For example world, because there are also things we don't know, we should make a clear

distinction between what we can and what we cannot know. For example, I do not know the color of

God's snot when God blows its nose. I don't know what it smells like when God farts, but I do

know how to determine whether or not a city or a municipality has been effective at reducing violence.

But unfortunately, we live in a world where people in power

pretend to not know things because not knowing things serves their desire to be as racist, as sexist,

and as dictatorial as they want to be. And I do know when a leader, quote unquote, is pretending to have

solutions about reducing crime. I know that when

those solutions don't actually work and when we've seen those solutions tried before, like

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