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Originally Posted by SackAttack
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.
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It is only going to get worse because of the movement to online education. Poor won't have access to any way to get connected. Those with money get the tech needed to learn tech jobs and therefore get them.