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So many ill-informed right wing talking points on this thread. Denigrating the character of poor people has a long history in the US and Britain among the Right as a way to control peoples thinking about class.
FWIW, there's alot of crime in affluent areas, it just doesn't get policed and it looks different.
As I noted earlier, just because crime doesn't make it into statistics doesn't mean that crime is not occurring. People in small towns are much more likely to know their police officials intimately (meaning on a personal/friendly basis) as a result, they are less likely to pull in their friends and criminalize them unless it is something extreme.
In larger urban areas, people don't know each other as intimately as they do in small towns and so more crime is reported as there is no personal ramifications for doing so.
In small towns you cannot get away with mischief or crimes as easily because everyone knows everyone. In a big city crimes occur, the culprits can slip away into the crowd because no one has a clue who they are. Breaking the window at the local secondhand dress shop is big news in a small town, it won't even raise an eyebrow in a big city.
How do assaults (without robbery) and homicide create income?
Look at it from a gang territory standpoint. Gang A eliminates their competition (Gang B), through assault and homicide to take over Gang B's territory, resulting in all the drug abusers etc.. in that territory to come Gang A for product, thereby creating income for Gang A.
And yet, millions of poor people every day manage not to commit a crime and blame it on poverty.
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What needs to happen is to enable people in poor areas to have a means of defending themselves. Poor, crime-ridden areas tend to be located in areas that also do the very most to disarm potential victims and leave criminals free to prey upon them.
Want to reduce crime?
1) Enable victims to shoot back, and put laws in place to protect them when the do so. Plant some scumbags on a regular basis and things will change. Either criminals will decide crime doesn't pay (not worth the risk) or, hopefully, we run out of criminals.
2) Do away with our pathetic, soft on crime, revolving door justice system. Nationwide 3 strikes laws and long, meaningful prison terms, including property crimes. Mandatory sentences for robbery, burglary, car theft, ect. Far too many crimes are committed by criminals with literally dozens of prior arrests that the system has failed to put away.
People in poor areas deserve the opportunity to live without fear for their lives and without constant theft of their property. This isn't just an issue in liberal cities, criminal justice is a joke in every state in this country.
So many ill-informed right wing talking points on this thread. Denigrating the character of poor people has a long history in the US and Britain among the Right as a way to control peoples thinking about class.
FWIW, there's alot of crime in affluent areas, it just doesn't get policed and it looks different.
Cling to those stereotypes because it makes you feel superior. People do not have a (R) for right and a (L) for left after their forum names, so you are just making this crap up and being a troll.
Look at it from a gang territory standpoint. Gang A eliminates their competition (Gang B), through assault and homicide to take over Gang B's territory, resulting in all the drug abusers etc.. in that territory to come Gang A for product, thereby creating income for Gang A.
When a gang hacks up little girls, they aren't doing it because they make money severing limbs, they do it to improve their image as a gang no one should oppose.
Around 50 years ago some moms in public housing complained that just because they were poor didn't mean they wanted to live in a crime infested area. So they organized and made a rule if you lived there and nobody in your household was convicted, out you went.
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