[Summit] Crime

[Emlyn Addison]

> Instead of solving our own problems with a crime watch or other
> suggestions, blaming the rich is totally ridiculous.  Guess we should tell
> those evil rich to stop teasing those wanna be thieves with expensive
> property.  Seem like blaming a women for how she dresses when she gets
> assaulted!
>

As much as I seek to be self-sufficient and to work at my own solutions,
your perspective does not take into account how this problem became "our
problem". The problem is, in fact, massively systemic, and with many
parents. Trace the line from petty neighborhood property crime back to its
root causes: among others, a gross, increasingly untenable disparity in the
distribution of wealth and a pathetic excuse for public health services.
Those graphs really aren't lying.

(And I'm always amused when Republicans insist that we are all God's
creatures and that life, thus, is to be cherished, yet won't agree to fund
even a rudimentary public health system. A happy, healthy population is a
productive one--why can't they get this first grade concept through their
crania?)

Property crime isn't always just a bunch of kids looking for an easy score.

Emlyn
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