Dispersing Social Problems
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
What happens when you take a group of people with social problems in a highly concentrated area (like a housing project) and spread them throughout the city without ever addressing their underlying problems?
Memphis, TN recently saw a spike in its crime rate (while its highly corrupt political leadership looked the other way) in areas that were previously low crime areas.An area of town known as Hickory Hills was an upscale neighborhood in the early 1990’s, but now it is known as “Hickory Hood”.
This article in the Atlantic gives the answer that everyone in
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With the price of gas at over 4$ a gallon, it makes no sense to have welfare recipients who don
Subhan’Allah. Thank you for linking this. Before Hurricane Katrina, a lot of housing projects were torn down and replaced with mixed income housing. Post Katrina, most, if any, are sure NOT to open back up. Plus you couple this with a lack of decent jobs and you have what we have in NOLA–crazy violent crime and poverty. Too sad.
That is all today’s leaders, beautifying property, without going into the source of the problem.
I have yet to see where beautifying homes have stopped crime. If anything, it increases it. I hate when I look at the news and hear people say ” I cannot understand why this(crime) happended here.” Then they’ll insinuate that it only happens in the Downtown district(or housing projects). What they do not get is that neighborhoods like them are most likely to get targeted because they boast about the luxuries of them and it is assumed that these people may have money. I’ve heard as so far as one guy saying it. He targets homes/neuighborhoods because of the hope of money and naive minds.
As the saying goes ” An idle mind is the devil’s workshop”. Although there is no excuse for crime, some of these people commit these crimes this because there are no stable jobs for them to have, no job traning centers for them to get some skills. They want to get rid of welfare, but they do not guarantee jobs for these people In the Bush era, the unemployment rate has went up and so has crime.
In 1985, I remembered hearing rumors about Blood and The Crips gangs coming to my city to recruit guillible people to join their gangs.Eventually it became a reality. When it was mentioned that it happened in the more Southward/ Westward part of town, the thought was overlooked andsuburbanites thought that it wouldn’t be their problem. Now, a great deal of these suburbanites are dealing with this same crisis. Other than offering stereotypes of the image of gang members, the leaders/police barely know how to deal with the problem.
Unless they are willing to admit the problem and get to the root of it, crime will continue to rise and as we’ve seen in recent years spread through all parts of society.