Food desert indeed. The problem is, complicated in a number of ways: Law enforcement is stunted for a lot of reasons such as:
Actions of idiots like the one in Baltimore who wanted to give looters “space” instead of having them arrested.
Law enforcement personnel who will look the other way or refuse to “serve and protect” the black community because they are abused by that very community when they attempt to enforce laws, and have their legs cut out from under them by their leaders who not only refuse to support them, but actively throw them to the wolves.
There are many areas in this country that have turned into no-go zones for law enforcement.
As a result, the cost of doing business is far higher in those crime-ridden areas. Insurance costs. Infrastructure costs for higher security, alarms security services, iron bars and iron gates for the stores, etc. coupled with simple theft, malicious vandalism, and other crime related factors.
So, if you are a company looking for places to open a store, you have three choices when it comes to doing business in those areas susceptible to ongoing crime and mob violence:
1.) Operate at higher costs, pass those costs on to the customers, and be accused of racial-based price gouging by the racist Department of Justice, Obama Administration, and The Rainbow Coalition.
2.) Operate at higher costs and lose money doing it by writing those costs off, doing this in the hope that the race-hustling alligators will eat you last because they take into account your “progressive” approach to doing business with minorities. (Note to them: This won’t work. You will still be hustled extorted, and excoriated by the race hustlers like The Rainbow Coalition.)
3.) Don’t do business in those areas because it makes no sense if you wish to run a successful business. One only has to look at what happens when irrational mobs, incited by race hustlers, decide to smash and loot any businesses while they are given “space” to do so. If I was on the board of a company that wanted to open a supermarket or store in these areas, I would go to YouTube, play the videos showing the looting, and demand the head of any entity in the organization who advocated deliberately exposing the business to that.
That is why there are food deserts in those places.
Nice job of detailing the reasons why the food deserts are self-imposed. I shall bookmark that.
Oh, everyone knows why the food deserts are there; often the only people who will open businesses in those areas are foreign newcomers (Asians, Hispanics) - one was robbed by Michael Brown before he was shot attacking the cop in Ferguson. Those businesses aren’t cheap to shop in, not just because of the high losses from theft but also because they are often the only taxable entity on the block (in areas dense with government housing).