statueman's Blog

Every major city has one thing in common that they all have shared over the past 10 yrs. I believe what I'm about decrib has direct effect on increased crime rates in all of the united states major cities. The backlash is now but how long will it last...

10 yrs ago President Clinton came with a plan to downsize public housing across the nation. This plan ment evicting resisdents who broke the law, mainly possession of illegal drugs or weapons. Understandable... during the 90s this was an easy task, just about anyone a cop would walk up too would be in possession. The eviction didn't require prosection only the arrest record.

Part II:

Public housing had to become self-sufficent: Understandable... But this ment tearing down 33,000 + units and replacing them with 10,000 and 8500 of these unit being market rate. So ruffly 33,000 apartments became 1500. These ment close to 100,000 people wre put on the housing market in the STL area, some got vouchers to live wentzville, some O'fallon, but many migrated to South City and North County. These resident only paid a few dollars rent and tax dollars paid the rest. Now they haf to pay real rent with $5.75 per hour jobs and increased cost in everything and I mean everything. This is real poverty and from real poverty comes real crime. This happened in every major city across the US. There are some programs out there to help like "welfare to work", but the work pays the same or less than welfare.

Part III
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Politicians who vote thier own raises and multi-million dollar private pensions really don't have time to deal with silly issues amongst the people on or near the bottom of the food chain. When will society realize this and vote for more taxes. The politicians are coming close to another cost of wasting increase which should occur shortly after the votes are tallied and they know the winners of the new raise and increased benefits for themselves.

Politicians? I didn't mention politicians but people. Is there a politician out there who will vote to raise taxes and lower their salaries a the same time? It'd take Rev Ike to be their campainge manager.

Aren't you glad there aren't any true philanthropics in Government? DC tends to eat those kind for breakfast. Mr Jimmy Stewart taught me that in with Mr Smith… “aww, pork chop money“ oops I‘m sorry Jimmy said that line in “Who Shot Liberty Valence”. But both movies seem to make the same point.

All I'm saying is you have those folks in St. Louis quietly doing alot of good. Those programs or missions or communal back to independent living resources perhaps need expansion? Improvement? Hmmmm Places tailor made for alternative sentencing? I‘m not asking politicians to do that but rather small accountable independent citizens groups. (spelling mistakes not withstanding…)

So where’s the solution? I think the “let us save St Louis from within”… But lets do it quietly, mercifully and quickly yet with regard for our own personal safety. Did I say ‘with‘? I meant with or without… a choice in the measure of the true missionary.

DBF typed what I was thinking.
Being politically correct is tantamount to buring your head in the sand. People need to wake up and say what's really on their mind. For the most part, what I see as racist are leaders in the ethnic communities, crying "racism" for their own political gains. They perpetuate the stereotypes. Thanks Al and Jessie. Want to eliminate the "Appearance of racism"? It starts at home. Grass roots efforts at combating crime, undereducation, joblessness. Bring on "work for welfare" programs. Stop the entitlement mentality. Quit creating your own stereotypes under the guise of "cultural diversity".

Unfortunately we've become a society where the most important part of conversational content is to not hurt anyone's feelings. This has permeated every facet of our lives. Sometimes people are just plain wrong. THey need to be told that. Not everyone is a "winner".
The world needs ditch-diggers too" - Judge Smails
I know, I was one at one time.
People are not being held responsible for their personal choices, in fact many times they are rewarded for it.
Saying society is racist becomes a convenient excuse to shirk personal resonsibility. People generally put themselves in thier own situations. "I'd rather have a new set of wheels for my car than provide for my family." "I'd rather hang out with my friends than make sure my kids are doing ok in school." Racist comments? No. Observeable behaviour. Does everyone in a specific racial or socioeconomic group behave the same way. Of course not.
The 'sir' thing was very cute.
Yes. I DO work for a living. I always have. I was raised in a poor section in near south St. Louis. But I was raised in a community that had good values. People looked out for one another. There was little crime, and what there was came from people outside of our neighborhood. People looked after each other.
Maybe we should try to bring back some of those values?
Rather than being politically correct?
Just a thought....

We may not be so different after all...
:-)

I belive I may have alluded to the solution without actually spelling it out. The solution needs to come from within. Responsibility. I'm not really an advocate of MadBear's vigilanteism, but I do take an active role in what takes place in my neck of the woods. I would not hesitate to assist a LEO if he or she needed help in a situation. Pehaps that's an issue that needs to be addressed also. The "look the other way, it's not my problem attitude"?
I think the probems have been identified many times over. Political correctness keeps us from actually DOING anything about it.
It's certainly much easier to put the bliders on and hope "someone else" solves the problem.
THe "miracle workers" can only accomplish so much. Soup kitchens and missions are a terrific thing when they are put to use for their intended purpose. When they become tools for enablement, they become the problem, not the solution.

When laws are altered by political correctness the law has no effectiveness. Profiling is a great example, valuable resources are spent checking people who would be the least suspected. I toured a very effective program in Calif, it saved the taxpayers over 7 Million a year, cost 2 million to run with a 72% success rate at a local prison. A 5 million savings to the county. They refused to fund the program a third year? Politics. Just ridding the system of the political correct approach would decrease crime drastically. Hard core repeat offenders can be sorted out and dealt with easily without politcal correctness. Some can be saved or rehabillitated but what is happening to prevent crime from reaching the point of dealing with a prisoner after the crime and not before the crime is committed. Criminals view punishment as a joke, hardly a deterent and more a reward. A guy in Calif who cross dresses is in jail, he won a case regarding his right to dress as a female. Taxpayers now pay for him to order from "Victoria Secrets" panties and gowns as his prison jammies, Go figure?