Formerly Black Trash
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How would you go about making a dangerous neighborhood safe?
- Thread starter Neuromancer
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This was literally my answer. Bring jobs.
you don't need a government to do thisthis is crazy coming from someone named anarchy
get these nets
Veteran
I don't think entire neighborhoods can be salvaged if they are already dangerous.
I've had first hand experience in helping turn around a few blocks though.
First thing is finding out who the owners are of the properties and businesses in the neighborhood. Go to the local township website and find ALL the laws about property maintenance and business ordinances. File complaints with local authorities for ALL code violations for the block.
If you are persistent, someone from the town will realize that the fines are producing a new small revenue stream and will be more likely to act on your complaints. All you're asking them to do is ENFORCE existing laws, but if they did that....the area wouldn't already be bad.
Property owners will either keep taking the hit for the fines or make slow changes and improvements. Store owners , same deal(majority of illegal activity in hoods are in these hood stores in some areas)
Meet with whichever older man or woman is the last person standing from when the block was still nice. Work through them on how to keep the area well lit at night to deter crime.
If it's one thing that criminals(and roaches) don't like is bright lights.
You'd be amazed by what these little simple steps do to improve a block.
I've had first hand experience in helping turn around a few blocks though.
First thing is finding out who the owners are of the properties and businesses in the neighborhood. Go to the local township website and find ALL the laws about property maintenance and business ordinances. File complaints with local authorities for ALL code violations for the block.
If you are persistent, someone from the town will realize that the fines are producing a new small revenue stream and will be more likely to act on your complaints. All you're asking them to do is ENFORCE existing laws, but if they did that....the area wouldn't already be bad.
Property owners will either keep taking the hit for the fines or make slow changes and improvements. Store owners , same deal(majority of illegal activity in hoods are in these hood stores in some areas)
Meet with whichever older man or woman is the last person standing from when the block was still nice. Work through them on how to keep the area well lit at night to deter crime.
If it's one thing that criminals(and roaches) don't like is bright lights.
You'd be amazed by what these little simple steps do to improve a block.
Larry Lambo
Superstar
I think youth activities/sports are overrated when it comes to keeping kids from becoming criminals. It helps kids with stable backgrounds and/or immense talent, but your run of the mill hood breh from a grimey ass background is still likely to wyld out once the game gets old or they know they ain't gonna go pro.
I'm from Miami and the majority of dope boys/jack boys/etc. played football on at least the youth level. Didn't stop them from going the wrong route, just may have delayed it. Look at how many NFL/NBA dudes would have been on some street sh*t if their career ended in high school. I'm not saying it doesn't help at all, but I just don't see the criminal element being eliminated because 11 year olds are shooting hoops instead of clowning around.
I'm from Miami and the majority of dope boys/jack boys/etc. played football on at least the youth level. Didn't stop them from going the wrong route, just may have delayed it. Look at how many NFL/NBA dudes would have been on some street sh*t if their career ended in high school. I'm not saying it doesn't help at all, but I just don't see the criminal element being eliminated because 11 year olds are shooting hoops instead of clowning around.
Jatigi
Flagrant Hater
Kill immediately upon conviction anyone who:
1.murders
2.rapes
3.molest a child
4.does anything violent to anyone except in self-defense/defense of others
Legalize and regulate all drugs. Kill any dealer without a license that sells a drug that ends up harming anyone.
Anyone of you who think that you can fix these things without capital punishment is naïve.
1.murders
2.rapes
3.molest a child
4.does anything violent to anyone except in self-defense/defense of others
Legalize and regulate all drugs. Kill any dealer without a license that sells a drug that ends up harming anyone.
Anyone of you who think that you can fix these things without capital punishment is naïve.
get these nets
Veteran
I agree to some extent.
I'm not making light of the violence that occurs in Chicago, but i CRINGED..........CRINGED a few years back when Isiah Thomas and D Rose were filmed running midnight basketball to curb street violence
WTF?????
I know they did more behind the scenes than just that but it was a puzzling graphic.
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
Eliminate hunger first
Those hunger pains ain't no punk
Those hunger pains ain't no punk
boriquaking
In Sauce We Trust!
Stop signs 
cocoabutter27
Pro
Free mental health counseling in community centers by great counselors that look like people in the neighborhood.
GIVE ADULTS JOBS AND KIDS SOMETHING TO DO.
I don't think any initiative can be successful and yield proper results without first promoting marriage and two-parent households. How to do that, I'm not exactly sure, because then you would have to start attacking hip-hop culture which directly influences urban inner-city culture and most are not willing to do that. The tragic part about this is that folks have so intertwined hip-hop with blackness, anything that appears to be anti-hip-hop is viewed as anti-black. So trying to correct post-traumatic stress-related inner city behaviors becomes wanting folks to "act white."
Not sure what the answer is.
Not sure what the answer is.
get these nets
Veteran
the wolves are hungry this year..be safe out there