As Janie once said, mg, I don't know if I should strangle you or hug you...

You seem so dog-goned determined to force safety and comfort on poor folks... Problem is that it's like a square peg and a round hole, especially given the meager resources available for the long forgotten "war on poverty"...

It shouldn't come down to better law enforcement.... We're doing purdy good in that with the high percentage of folks who have come from poor families now incarcerated...

No, what I have been trying to talk about, as well as d and Janie, is a basic paradyme shift toward solutions v. incarceration... Cameras, while maybe being of some value, isn't the answer... Programs & resources are... We used to have "midnight baasketball" leagues in DC an' the youngin' who would normally ahngin' ther streets would show up and play b-ball... The funds for thast program got cut off and now the kids who used to be in the gym at midnight are back on the streets...

We used to have school breakfast programs that enticed kids to come to school so they would get at least one good mean a day and we cut the funds... Now these kids don't bother comin' to school anymore...

That's what I've been talkin' about... You can't just wish poverty away and you can't magically implant middle class experiences onto people who are clueless and expect that they will get it... They won't...

No, what it's goina' take a real commitment by our very wealthy nation to redistribute the wealth, thru money, theu programs, thru social workers, thru teachers, thru, thru, thru....

If we are not willing to make those changes we will continue to pay for our failures in incarcaretion ($42,000 per yer per inmate) and the knowledge that we had alternatives to letting the rich hoard all the riches...

This is very much about revolution...

The gap between the haves and have-nuthings has never been greater and it's time that we quit blaming the have-nuthings...

Bobert