That wasn't the point. The point is that there is no such thing as being uninvolved and 'not a victim' of crime. You are either going to be impacted directly by crime, indirectly by rising costs associated with crime and incarceration, or by costs associated with prevention. You don't get to choose to not be impacted by crime, just how you're impacted.
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Obviously we cannot solve all of the issues of the past. I wasn't alive then and neither were you (probably). Redlining was eventually outlawed and yes blacks were not treated fairly, but passing out money is not going to begin to rectify everything. Want to improve things for inner city folk? Improve the education system. Kick out the troublemakers, support those who walk to school with their books, improve the school meal system, get parents who cannot read well to learn so. Not in high school? No government money. Got money for drugs? You smoke? You don't need more $$. Encourage people to do better, to want to succede.
That might work if houses were solidly constructed. There are few houses around now a days that a .30 cal. round wouldn't go in one side and out the other.That was funny, I will add if you want to be really really safe, stay home
Good point, I am going to better my odds by sleeping on the floor.That might work if houses were solidly constructed. There are few houses around now a days that a .30 cal. round wouldn't go in one side and out the other.
Education systems are paid for by local property taxes. Low property values = low education funding. Are you going to pay for the sins of the past by having your property taxes used to bolster low income education funding? Or is that an "issue of the past" that isn't your and my fault?
It is my opinion that justice that is meted out through our judicial system is an individual matter and not a blanket effort to incarcerate any particular group of people other than those that break the law. The sentences do make a difference in that they take that particular offender off the streets for a period of time and thus justice is carried out. If it appears to you that our criminal justice system doesn't seem to curb crime, I submit to you that new criminals are born every day and each criminal will eventually be caught and be punished. It's all just a matter of time and resources. In the interim, good men will continue to defend themselves and the innocent by all legal means.
It is a fact that recidivism rates by those that go to prison are 2 out of 3 get re-arrested and 50% go back to prison.
Your assertion that schools are funded by local property taxes is only partly accurate. The federal gov't. funds schools and a whole host of other educationally related subjects. Schools in America have failed because of poor quality of teachers, political agendas and social reforms being foisted onto the citizenry, teachers unions, lack of intact families and no dads in the home. The school systems are little more than facilities to indoctrinate children and sexualize them for exploitation by teachers, administrators and others.
If you see all forms of regulation as "punishment", then yes, the food truck vendors are being punished by having to move their trucks. You could also say that they are being punished by having to meet board of health guidelines, paying for licenses and taxes, and the fact that some of their potential clientele are scared to go to their locations due to the violence.
Public schools in America vary widely in the quality of their output. Having gone to a top US university, I can tell you that most of my friends had very good public school educations that equipped them to get into a competitive college and get good grades. None of them went to inner city schools.
The dynamics of recidivism are complex and deal with IQ's, education, family and friends as well as social systems and values. Most criminals are exceeding low functioning. Murders are solved by police at an extremely high rate. It is the convictions that are lacking because of our "social justice" system. I was kind of famous for arresting three generations of the same family for property crimes over the span of my rather short career as a cop. Why would a grandfather, his son and then his grandson participate in criminal activity when other opportunities abound?
Good for you! However, it is imprudent (in my opinion) to judge or evaluate our system of public education simply by the measure of one's own experience. Better to examine the entire social and economic structure of this nation and then consider the imperial evidence before coming to a conclusion. The inner city of most American cities is a dumping ground for minorities and other disenfranchised people. It should come as no surprise that inner city schools don't draw the brightest and best teachers or students. The entire system has failure programmed into it. Thus, there is always a place for tax dollars to be sent in order to provide a consistent base for liberal voters.
Murder clearance rates are 54%, and that is the best clearance rate of any class of US crime. The clearance rate includes arrests, not just convictions. So I think it is fair to say that about half of murders and the vast majority of all crimes go unsolved in any way.
Why would making education equally funded be a liberal idea?
By work, keeping creeps who attack women and children off the streets, then yes. It works. Does it ruin the criminals lives? Probably. The first priority goes to the tax paying innocent citizen.
