Its impossible to address crime without addressing its inverse relationship to personal virtue. Societies are made up of individuals; abandon virtue as a society and watch your society unravel.
In simplest terms, crime can be tied pretty directly to broken families and substance abuse. Broken families and substance abuse.
It isn’t poverty. Poor neighborhoods, in a society in which families are intact and virtue is the norm, are as safe as any other.
Even “virtue” is a precarious thing without tying it to the Lord.
You might have the best instruments in the world in a room, but if it’s rank amateurs playing on them, you won’t get the wonderful sound of the Philadelphia Philharmonic.