Crime in other Neighborhoods
Richard Layman has written an intersting post about Urban Neighborhood Crime. You can see read the post here
this excerpt rings true here
As long as a community doesnt address the deeper programmatic issues involved in addressing the culture and social and economic exclusion issues (quality of schools, safety of the neighborhood, the redevelopment of the neighborhood economy (such as outlined in the textbook Community Economic Development Handbook by Temali) its likely that crime rates while dropping will hit a ceiling, and of course, will
oscillate according to the state of the economy in a particular community.
August 15th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
Karen, I thought that was a really interesting site, although now that I think about it, I didn’t see the post you quoted (I’ll go back in a minute). I bookmarked it though, because he had some very insightful posts on urban development.
So, I’m guessing you’re back home and settling in? I really hope I can manage to get down there for RT.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I apologize for getting your confused with Monica’s & Grey Biker’s Karen. Oops.
August 17th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Precisely the argument I’ve made elsewhere. New Orleans has a very high “elasticity” to crime. Rates went down across the country in direct correlation to two factors: higher incarceration rates, and a growing economy. New Orleans rates fluctuated much more wildly than the nation’s — both a function of extremely high rates of reintroduction of previous offenders into society who had completed their terms, and worsening economic conditions.
August 17th, 2006 at 1:42 pm
you do also need to address crime on a neighborhood by neighborhood level. You have to develope a real community in each neighborhood.