Borzou, I believe the root cause of so much violence in the inner cities is fivefold.
1. Fatherless families. Nearly every statistic bears out that when you remove the father from the family, society suffers. All too often this has been caused from social policies which encouraged fathers to move away in order to obtain better welfare benefits. The statistics on young adults in jail, dropping out of school or getting pregnant out of wedlock bear this out clearly. Substituting the state as the father has been a dismal liberal social experimental failure.
2. Education. The NEA and department of education have practically ruined the governments K-1 thru K-12 education system. First by forcing whole language down our throats when phonics worked wonderfully. Then by caring more about their funding source instead of who their customers really are, namely, the children and parents of the district. I say, let's teach kids how to read before we social promote them into failure. I also say, let's move rapidly toward charter schools or voucher systems.
3. Drugs. The do what ever you want counterculture revolution of the sixties has led to more social problems than we can count. From addiction, to divorce, to fatherlessness. We need to refocus our efforts toward legalizing certain drugs like pot and take the lure of quick bucks away from teenagers. But what are we doing instead, pretending that cigarettes are the worst threat to the health of kids! C'mon, how pathetic to make a statement like that, when angel dust and so many other horrible drugs rule the streets.
4. Criminal repeat offenders. Something like 70% of the crimes that are committed are committed by repeat offenders. In Japan you don't see people plea bargaining rape charges down to 2 years from 12. If someone is guilty of a serious crime, we need lock them up and keep them locked up. The liberal feel gooders who think everyone deserves a third and fourth chance have been proven pathetically wrong. 10 years should mean ten years. Period. You do the crime, you do the time! We have taken the risk out of so many crimes. Criminals aren't stupid. Most of them take calculated risks based on the criminal court system in place today. Liberal judges are some of our worst enemies.
5. Taxes. We have taxed too many small business's out of the cities. Enterprise zones to encourage business's to move back into the cities have been talked about for years. Why don't we have them on a huge scale? Because people like Charlie Rangell and Richard Ghephard keep whining about cutting taxes that's why? They try and stir up dissent by separating people into economic classes instead of trying to work on way's where everyone can have win-win situations.
Michael
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