[MarignyBywater] on reducing crime

[Ava de Montagne]

Please, fix it up nice.  Research also shows that if you invest in
creating after school sports programs and debate clubs and chess clubs
in public schools, it dramatically decreases crime. If you keep classes
for public schools small, and hire competent teachers and if you invest
in fixing the broken parts of the school building, it helps kids feel
they are also valued members of this society, and that has a wonderful
shrinking effect on crime in the years that follow. 
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:35:02 -0500, "karl barrett" <kigung at gmail.com>
said:
> As i see the continued distress in my community generated by  violent
> crime,
> it occurs to me there is more we could do to dissuade it.In particular,
> some
> basic property maintenance. I'm not saying bring it to pristine
> condition,
> but no broken windows, no collapsing structures. Drive down Frenchmen
> street, for example, and what do you see? Have you been here so long you
> just overlook it now, ignore it?  A collapsing awning, missing weather
> boards, broken 2nd story windows, dumpsters sitting for weeks overflowing
> with trash. All owned by people who could certainly fix it. This blight
> is
> like chum in the water for sharks.  It says we are apathetic, if you hunt
> prey here, no one cares. It is in some ways  worse than graffiti  in that
> respect. The research and stats provided by the law enforcement community
> are pretty clear, reduce blight and you reduce crime.