re: study shows welfare prevents crime, quite dramatically

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that’s debatable. Arguments can be made that Jim Crowe is alive and well today.

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Really like this "reach." It's up there with some of the best have ever seen from the Left.

If we're committed to making such "reaches across the chasm" and "threading the needle" to such an extent, then there's room for the premise that Orleans, which was the first major city to fall during the War Between the States - forcing it to be under federal control longer than any other city - is still under a form of Reconstruction.

The "consent decree" is just one small example of it.

After all, many of the dysfunctions, including the crime, we're experiencing presently, our forebears were going through during that time. Much of it black-related.

White women couldn't leave their homes to do their shopping without being accosted or worse.

So present times are eerily reminiscent of then.

It was a time of catchback and "revenge."

Some have theorized that those two attitudes are presently alive and well, and are a major part of the crime we're experiencing now.

Again, history has a way of repeating itself.

There was a reason for the "Liberty Monument" that used to be at the foot of Canal Street, which has been taken down and is in pieces being hidden along with the other monuments somewhere. But few are willing to go there.

According to the archives, during the '50s crime was at a minimum here.