Or maybe the crux here is that there are almost no poor urban whites. Then it's like claiming your little island nation has the most nobels per capita, even when you've only got around 50k people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_per_capita …
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I'm saying maximum appeal would be doing what I suggested, otherwise you can show stuff like that bjs report like I showed, and frankly I'm still not sure what that indicates.
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Here's some NYC data. I'm having a little trouble finding NYC poverty by race, but here's the data for children. Notice the disparity isn't nearly as large as the crime disparity. Also, keep in mind that poverty inherently causing violent crime doesn't actually make sense.pic.twitter.com/oRVXzaBnRJ
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Poverty might cause someone to steal, but it doesn't really cause assault. In contrast, does crime cause poverty? Absolutely! Criminals are not good people to hire, for one thing.
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One could say that socioeconomic marginalization makes gangs appealing to young people, but this also applies to Hispanics, and they do not have such a high homicide rate. Either way, it's a mix of dysfunctions where one feeds another. Stupid and impulsive people have a difficult
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time being successful in the legitimate economy. So crime is an alternative for them. Both poverty and crime are the causes. It is similar to how stupid and impulsive people have a difficult time organizing a good government to take care of their needs, so the government and the
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population are trapped in an endless cycle of incompetence and lack of accountability.
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We can easily see how crime could cause poverty. Think about how difficult economic activity can be if property rights are not secure. Too much stealing and the stores go out of business. You have to trust people to honor contracts and not stab you.
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The possibility of the inverse causation of poverty causing crime is only reasonably clear for nonviolent crime, but even there a closer analysis of the motivations of criminals reveals that few are just stealing bread to survive.
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