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Originally Posted by RainMaker
I'd actually like to see the homicide rate in those communities fall, which is why I think the focus should be on the issues that would help that number fall. That's of course racist.
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Except that the biggest thing you can do, over time, to bring down homicide numbers is to tackle poverty. Give kids something resembling a future, and gang affiliations don't look so attractive. Give them a way out and a way up, and they're not hanging around as the 24-year-old high school dropout who chose a life of crime because the unemployment rate is triple for young black men what it is for the country at-large.
And the biggest thing you can do to attack poverty is to address the schools, but you can't leave it up to a poor community to do the things a poor community's schools need in order to improve. It takes a collective societal effort to make that happen.