Life ‘On The Run’ In America's Big Cities (Atlanta: 2014, crime)

[Schemula]

Give this podcast a listen.
Life ‘On The Run’ In America

Her experience is based on Philadelphia, but, in-town Atlanta residents should be able to relate.

I won't lie, I agreed with about half of what she says, and almost violently disagreed with the other half.

My conclusion is the same as it was before listening to this - there is a definite issue, there is not a definite solution.

What I don't think is working is a lot of what we are doing know and what I read in comments that we should be doing more of. Treat "them" harshly and lock "them" up longer! definitely ruins lives and at very young ages. When your life is essentially over by 13, 14, 15 years old, a life long criminal is the result and that crime tends to skew violent over time.

I can't get as hippie as she wants to with the solution, but, in a larger sense, she's not completely off base.

The "problem" has to be dealt with at the root, or, it's just too late. And dealing with the problem at the root seems to be the kinda of unpleasant conversation nobody wants to have.

I just bought a house in a "transitioning" area, and all of Spike Lee's idiotic gentrification rants aside, I'm kinda sad in my soul that SO MUCH of my decision was predicated on weighing crime stats and almost resigning myself to getting burgled or worse at some point.

Making an area "better" should not have to spark a race war. It should be a common and shared goal.