Wouldn't it be much cheaper for the state to help the inner city schools? The impression I get in the place I live now, people do not trust police, so they are terrorized by awful people. My Mom just got a different job, but in the ER of a red lined swamp town, no one ever knows who shot them. Even at point blank range, never any idea who is running around shooting people. There are half a dozen, to a dozen shootings here a year. I can see hiding where you got a wound, if you tried to rob the wrong person, but almost none of the survivors of violence will tell the police anything. She had a 15 year old kid, who had his eye kicked out, wouldn't say who did it. People need to be able to trust law enforcement, or no one is safe.
In what way? Zuckerberg donated $100 million to Newark public schools, and they got no better (and that money was matched by some other donors and foundations). If $200MM can't fix some broken schools, I don't know what can. Schools lack money in the inner city, but they are also a reflection of the communities they're in, so if the underlying poverty is left alone while the schools are given some bucks, nothing really changes. Apparently he has a new project in California that he's trying to apply some of the lessons he learned in Newark, so I wish him luck.Wouldn't it be much cheaper for the state to help the inner city schools?
Trust has to be earned. The surrounding poverty is a big problem. The businesses getting grants in Detroit, are all useless to the community. A fine wine store really? I can't even find the article, with the rest of that list, because of the weird things that town does with the internet. I've tried to look up murder scenes I have walked past, no one reports about them. Not to mention trying to look up basic services. There has been too many times where searches turn up empty, to not think things are being blacked out. There are plenty of burned out husks of people's dreams. I don't know what kind of Utopia they are holding out for, but it might make more sense to get a job, and shop in the neighborhood, than burn every business down. This is in the category of problems, I have failed to wrap my head around, I have easier projects now. They have less people in the equation. If you have any books that would me understand, I would be grateful for the recommendation.