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Re: The effects of income and wealth inequality: Toronto
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Robert C Bowman <[log in to unmask]>
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Social Determinants of Health <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:40:37 -0600
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Check out any geographic listing of crime patterns and they will be low
income. When a higher income type is robbed, it becomes front page news. Of
course the efforts are doubled in high income areas, but fail to address
the roots in low income areas.

In the US before 9/11   we were already spending 6 to 1 for personal
security compared to police, this is likely 10 or 12 to 1 now. However the
security efforts have not improved the lot of low income areas. We are also
increasing the numbers of criminals with higher and higher intelligence by
leaving increasing percentages behind in education and economics.

We have also made high cost autos more and more difficult to steal without
the key, so carjackings and home invasions are becoming more common.

To defend ourselves is more and more a matter of running faster than the
others so that you can outrun the unknown and unseen bear. More personal
security and an elite neighborhood can provide some protection, but it does
not address the root causes that breed more and bigger and smarter and
faster bears.


The only real cures are better preparation for education, better education,
better economics, etc.

Efforts to fence off immigrants will be costly and won't work. Efforts to
improve the economics in Mexico would work much better.

Sadly this is not the common mode of thought.

Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
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