walker
2010-09-14 21:27:21
Probably too late on this to matter but what did homicides have to do with poverty in the first place? Violent crime isn’t necessarily linked to poor economic traditions but lesser crimes (like uh… stealing!?) are linked to poverty for the obvious reasons. What the “article” misses entirely is that crimes such as theft, check fraud, and robbery HAVE gone up in L.A. and many other (mostly urban) parts of the country since the recession. Google it.
It’s not a myth, the facts in this case are correct but unrelated to the original hypothesis they are used to deconstruct.
