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Illustrious_Listen_6 t1_ix8dkfq wrote

What will it take for this city to change/thrive?

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[deleted] t1_ix8ep62 wrote

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YoYoMoMa t1_ixcpwnt wrote

They have actually shown that living in a place with opportunities is the most important part of this equation. Parenting and schooling can help, but if people see no legal path to a better life, they will feel no particular draw to it.

The key will be to make giant investments in underserved communities the way we did in the suburbs.

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JustTheWehrst t1_ixbqjgb wrote

Ultimately, money. Crime is a direct consequence of poverty, the quality of your education is a direct result of how valuable your homes are, people beating the good old "harsher sentences" drums fail to recognize that most people committing crimes either don't think they'll be caught or don't care.

Higher wages, making it easier for people to get jobs when they leave prison, better affordable housing option, more funding to local schools and community centers, etc. The more we build up the foundation the fewer problems we'll see

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Cunninghams_right t1_ixbuvg0 wrote

ironically, higher crime drives away employers, tourism revenue, property values, etc.. the cycle is hard to break.

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Illustrious_Listen_6 t1_ixbzgu2 wrote

I agree 1000%. We’re thinking about moving out of this city to start a family. What a sad city.

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Impossible-Isopod-71 t1_ixbxzzw wrote

Those answers seem great to the problem but the thing is that most youth nowadays don’t have a good work ethic. Plus whatever monney the make from committing crimes will be higher than doing a regular job so why wouldn’t they go back to doing the same crimes after being released

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YoYoMoMa t1_ixcq02i wrote

>most youth nowadays don’t have a good work ethic

JFC. Is it because of their long hair and their rock music? You would think people would be self aware enough to finally not be the generation that labelled the next one lazy, but here we are.

https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544?lang=en

Twitter thread with examples of this brain dead idiocy from every ten years or so going back a century plus.

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JustTheWehrst t1_ixcys20 wrote

Why bother having a good work ethic when the only jobs available to the average person without a degree are slaving away at Uber or grubhub and entry level service jobs that pay $12 an hour where every customer treats you like you're subhuman, maybe if people had decent pay and better working conditions that wouldn't be the case

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