Re:90k packages are stolen in NYC every day – How one buildi...
by pjc50 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:22PM
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Well, American society was not merely failing people but formally excluding them until the moon landings. You talk about education; some of the Southern states shut down their education system entirely for a year rather than accept integration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_resistance
If you want a solution to the spiral of violence, http://www.svru.co.uk/ were hugely effective as an intervention carrot-and-stick approach.
I think the problem is you have people who grow up in violence and only know violence. If we have a society that successfully educated people, kept people from falling through the cracks and provided them with opportunities, violence wouldn't be necessary. But for how many generations has our society failed people? How many generations have the failed, neglected people in our society grown up only knowing violence as something to be respected? Two? Three? Four generations? The question in my mind is whether even violence will deter people, which I am not certain of. But certainly prison doesn't deter anybody.
The only real answer, obviously, is education. But education is almost beyond repair at this time.