[okie01]

The Atlantic just ran a major article on the same phenomenon -- although the reporting failed to associate a rather obvious racial component with the phenomenon.

American Murder Mystery

The article's sub-head:

Why is crime rising in so many American cities? The answer implicates one of the most celebrated antipoverty programs of recent decades.

As, indeed, it does. The unspoken conclusion of the article is that a.) federal housing projects did much to create an unhealthy environment that spawned crime and poverty, then b.) Section 8 programs served to export the crime and poverty to the rest of the city.

One failure atop another, only making the situation worse.

But the intentions of these cherished liberal programs were good. Only their results were catastrophic -- for both the "beneficiaries" of the program and the innocent citizens who paid for them.

Alas, liberals will never learn from this lesson. Instead, they will demand more money to "fight poverty".

[B4Ranch]

>Alas, liberals will never learn from this lesson. Instead, they will demand more money to “fight poverty”.<

and initiate gun control.

[BikerJoe]

The unspoken conclusion of the article is that a.) federal housing projects did much to create an unhealthy environment that spawned crime and poverty

Quoting P.J. O'Rourke: "...built in the sixties before city planners discovered that you can't stack poor people who drink."

[metesky]

But the intentions of these cherished liberal programs were good. Only their results were catastrophic -- for both the "beneficiaries" of the program and the innocent citizens who paid for them.

Don't worry so much. The programs worked just fine for the liberal paper-shufflers who got the administrative jobs.

Works the same way as our failing school system. "Good jobs at good wages", in Mike Dukakis's turn of phrase.