Society Today: The Roots of Homicide

As a relationship expert I can assure you that hands down, there is a direct connection between low income and low economic groups and high crime. When people are economically depressed, they get desperate, take matters into their own hands, and resort to crime. These low economic neighborhoods do not have the same benefits and opportunities that middle and upper class neighborhoods have, and while police have their hands full in these neighborhoods, there is just not enough police protection to handle the fallout from the low economic life style. This is when gangs become the local authorities. The problems have gotten so bad in some neighborhoods, that gangs are the prevalent authorities, overruling the spread too far and too thin police and law enforcement.

In my experience, broken family, teen pregnancy and high school graduation rates are all directly related to, and casualties of lower economic neighborhoods.

Infuse a neighborhood with money and/or the ability to earn money — the same money that the majority of the rest of the country is earning — and you’ll see a change, but until the cycle of poverty is broken, crime will remain, and grow.