When I was growing up in Chicago, the fingerprints of government were all over the segregation of the people. Those who love government wanted government to provide housing for the poor, so they created these housing "projects" in most of the northern big cities (Chicago, Detroit, NYC, etc.). They built shiny new buildings and made it out to be a country club. They invited the "poor" (i.e. black people) to move in and then built freeways around them to mark the boundaries (and keep the people in). Segregation through civil planning. What they should have done is provide people with vouchers so they could find their own housing. I know as a landlord that I would prefer the guaranteed government money over taking a risk on someone who might be a deadbeat. Instead of X square blocks of black residents, 2 out of every 10 homes in most neighborhoods would be black residents. The opposite of segregation.
Newsflash: Violent crime happens when people are in closer proximity to each other. Hence the reason why it doesn't happen as much in rural areas.
No, but I never discriminated against anyone who wanted to rent. Other than credit worthy. The government's vouchers are plenty credit worthy.
@MarAzul: I'm bored.. I know! Let's burn a Strawman!! I'm gonna go out on my boat and catch some red herring!
Not jumping into the conversation one way or another other than to comment on Gary Indiana. Basically South Chicago. Ive never seen 30 story buildings boarded up before..... Also, In correlation with poverty is lack of quality parenting.... And I dont bu the premise that you can fix poor parenting by fixing poverty. There are good parents who are poverty stricken. NOt jhumping into
Nobody wants to discuss the real source of violent crime in America. Our diversity. Nearly all violent crime in America is committed by minorities against minorities. Their failed cultures of non-parenting and self-victimization have wasted generations of human beings and victimized millions while we look the other way and make up scapegoats (guns, racist cops, educational system, white privilege) and excuses for what is simply horrific crime committed without remorse largely by 2 minorities. https://www.amren.com/archives/reports/the-color-of-crime-2016-revised-edition/ New York City, for example, does not participate in NIBRS but it records the races of arrested offenders, and consistently distinguishes between whites and Hispanics. In 2014, 374 people were arrested for murder. Their races were as follows: White: 2.9 percent Black: 61.8 percent Hispanic: 31.8 percent Asian: 2.7 percent Other: 0.8 percent Police take murder very seriously and investigate all cases carefully. Press and judicial system scrutiny are high. Arrest rates for murder therefore track actual crime rates more closely than for any other crime. Murder is probably the crime for which it would be most difficult for police to make “biased” arrests even if they wanted. Look at those numbers, then remove all blacks and hispanics from the equation. Crime wave eliminated.
8,530,000 people in NY city. with your numbers, chance of being killed by a Black person = 0.0000072% chance of being killed by a white person = 0.00000035 I don't see your crime wave, I see millions upon millions of innocent whites, blacks, hispanics and so on.
also, the 2014 number came from the lowest number of homicides in NYC since 1963 - Your Crime Wave seems pretty safe so far. In 2014 the chance of being murdered by all ethnicities combined was only 0.00004% Such a scary place. You should have posted about murders on NYC on Halloween, so spooky.
Organized crime meccas have more violence...New York and Chicago are where gangsters peddle poison...they can always find weapons illegally...rural mass shootings though seem to have a different demographic altogether...rage fueled...not money or gang related
i was agreeing with your sentiment that race was not the reason for violent nature. you should be honored i agreed with anything you said.
Neither did the founders. Hence "pursuit of happiness". Therein lies the difference between left and right. Y'all believe this. Liberals for the most part, do not.
