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Originally Posted by GunLawyer001
That was not a suggestion, it was a demonstration that Philadelphia's crime problem is caused by the people who live there, not by the drinking water, or some electromagnetic freakish Philadelphia Triangle, or a lack of resources based on location. Replace all the people with a different group of people, and you would not have the same crime problem. It's a population contaminated with a corrupt culture, and that can't be fixed with outside money or the loving assistance of suburbanites, any more than we could turn the Mafia into a legitimate business through enthused singing of Kumbaya. In fact, infusions of cash into a corrupt culture will WORSEN the problem.
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Not helpful. Maybe you're right, or maybe not (likely right) but who cares. It ain't gonna happen.
In terms of the costs, I'm thinking more in terms of the CJ system. We don't have enough cops, the DA is grossly underfunded and the prisons overflowing to the point where judges don't give harsh sentences in part because there's no place to put the inmates. On that score, the culture you discuss quickly learns that there are few if any consequences for criminal behavior. Do an armed robbery, plead to robbery, do 11 to 23 months in county. Get out and do it again. The legislative 5 year minimums are a joke because the legislature hasn't bothered to build enough prisons and the mostly poor population of philly isn't brimming with tax dollars to start the crews working on another county facility.
In terms of recidivist programs, they too cost money.
Where the suburbanites will start to care is when crime gets so out of control that it starts to overflow out of the cities and into their neighborhoods. When you have some skin in the game you might take it all a lot more seriously.
Right now, all I see are the usual excuses.