Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Copperline Date:   4/20/2016 4:40:26 PM

I don't know if I can agree with you on that one.  Yes, I agree that poverty is a the root it in a lot of crimes.  We should stop looking at the symtoms of the problem ( drug addiction, drug dealing, gang violence) and start looking at the real problem which is poverty and perceived lack of opportunity.   But when you look at who is doing the crimes most often, it is blacks, which is why they are often profiled.  Virtually all of the murders in Montgomery seem to take place in the black community.   The same is true for B'ham, Atlanta and any other city.  I'm not a racist by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that refusing to admit who is doing most of the crime, and who is put in jail for these crimes.  I don't agree with thost that say that blacks are put in jail for crime much more often than whites.  And I don't agree with Obama's approach that we should be releasing criminals that are "only" in jail for "minor" crimes like drug distribution or theft.  Breaking the law is breaking the law.  Most of these people have multiple arrests, which says to me that they are not learning from their actions. 

One thing, I was living in Northern VA when the real estate and home construction as at its peak.  This brought a lot of Central Americans into the area for jobs, and with it, they brought gang violence, particularly the brutal MS-13 out of El Salvador.  And the places that they resided was a hot bed for violent crimes.  I guess the bright spot is that they didn't often target any other community than their own.