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Originally Posted by mlmdub130
now we are talking about who is selling and buying, all i'm saying is just because you live in a fancy neighborhood and eveyone drives bmw's doens't mean they aren't up to no good.
what was intially said was:
and personally i think that statement is very iggnorant, regardless of race or nationality, he is saying people with money get together play poker, drink brandy, and smoke cigars, while poeple with no money are involed in illegal activities. imo i think that is a old fashioned way of thinking, but it's just that, my opinion.
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First, you're putting words in my mouth, namely the bolded parts. I never said those things.
What I said was the likelihood of a constant parade of people in and out of a house is more likely to be suspicious in a lower income neighborhood than in a higher income neighborhood. There are facts and figures to back that up, it's not some broad-brushed generalization.
Never did I say that low income people are always up to something illegal.
Your reading comprehension and critical reasoning skills need work.
Income is an indicator of a lot of things for a lot of reasons:
- There's less incentive to commit crime when you can legally support yourself comfortably.
- There's more to lose by risking getting caught by the police.
- Higher-income neighborhoods have more tax funds available to fund local police. Look no further than Camden NJ where they recently laid off 24% of the police force.
- Now combine the above. In higher income communities you have high ratios of police force to residents, and lower incidence of crime because mostly the citizens just want to go to work and live their comfortable lives. The result is a police force with not much to do but investigate the most mundane calls.
- And do the same in lower income neighborhoods. You have a police force that's spread too thin, and a high incidence of crime because more residents turn to crime to make ends meet. The result there is a police force that can't always respond to 911 calls in a timely manner.
I'm not profiling Chris Johnson. It has nothing to do with race. This is just the way our society's socioeconomic machine operates.