Piff Perkins
Veteran
Why is this one city so out of control? You can blame the government, but the people are choosing to act like this. Something isn’t right. How did it get this bad? Do they want to live that way? What is it going to take to get lifestyle changes? It can’t be JUST poverty.
But it is poverty. Crime has a direct correlation to poverty. This is what happens when you herd a bunch of poor people into overpacked areas with limited resources, little to no jobs, no education prospects, no trade prospects, and easy access to drugs and guns. It's a system that's working how it was designed to work. I feel very uncomfortable seeing people on the Coli make posts like this, insinuating that this MUST be something else...perhaps the moral failings of "our people." In reality these people are stuck in a trap.