New Orleans Recently, two kids managed to grab-and-run with a couple of hundred bucks at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse as one created a distraction and other jumped the counter. The neighboring grocery store cameras had great pictures of them scouting their location. We spent a lot of time trying to give the footage to the police. …
Tag: Crime
Community Organizations Stabilize Urban Neighborhoods & Reduce Crime
New Orleans We told you so, and we’ve been telling the same story for more than 50 years: community organizations stabilize and improve neighborhoods. It seems almost ridiculous to have to state the claim. Seems like this should be common knowledge by now, but here it is, we’re saying it this time because in …
Criminalization of America’s Poor and Minorities on Trivial Beefs
Vancouver Over the last couple of days while traveling about I read on my Kindle a new book called, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, by budding sociologist, Alice Goffman, about a 6-year period of observation of a changing neighborhood in Philadelphia. As the title makes clear the criminalization of this lower …