I have saved that story because it describes the demographic/geographic changes in violent crime rates in Memphis after the HUD Section 8 housing voucher program. The fact that the story was in the quite liberal Atlantic Monthly made it even more compelling (though, predictably, the author derives all the wrong conclusions).
I became aware of the impact of the Section 8 housing voucher program when I, as a young father, moved my family into an apartment complex that accepted such payments. I witnessed an alarming level of criminal behavior, along with much more of the simply unneighborly kind.
These apartments had, just years before, been full of young professionals and young families.
The demographic changes that occurred in the early 90's were stark, and in my opinion, intentional.
Any where sec 8 housing is crime shoots up. And it’s always whitey’s fault, for keeping the brother surpresed and under educated. BS it is their fault for not getting an education, for having kid after kid out of wedlock. And for voting crooks into office after they’ve been convicted and jailed. It is a formula for failure that they like, because they are to lazy to work. Selling crack/pot/dope for a $1000 an day beats working for a living. You have to make crime unprofitable in order to make it not worth while. Same goes for the welfare queens, quite paying them to have more babies.
I was poor growing up, and had no opportunity to go to college. None of the 4 of us broke the law. But we were taught right from wrong. I was a divorced mom for 10 years and did it all on my own with a little help from my parents for baby sitting on school holidays. I started work as a janitor for $3.50 an hr. Took 7 years to get to $5.50. We lived in a $65 a month shack. Clothing with the exception of shoes and under things came out of rummage sales. We didn’t even have a telephone. None of my 3 boys were in trouble with the law, with the exception of getting caught out after hours.
If you were to read our paper now, it would say crime is down. BS the first 5-10 mins of the nightly local news is one crime after another. They are covering up the true stats.
It’s called Hierarchical Counting, only the most serious crime is counted. If a woman is robbed, raped and murdered that is 3 crimes, they only count the murder. You just flushed 2 crimes down the toilet.