Race and violence in the 'Welfare Magnet' - 2/3 of young men in one
Zip Code have been or are incarcerated
John Bennett
5/17/2013
http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/race-and-violence-in-the-welfare-magnet/
Want to guess that the real estate agents stay away from these facts:
Half of the housing loans are for investors, 60 subprime lenders are
in operation, 90 percent of family income-tax filers are single
parents, and 90 percent of the jobs are held by non-residents.
That�s all from Milwaukee�s Zip Code 53206, a key component of what�s
been described as Wisconsin�s welfare magnet.
The details from this neighborhood, and its city, aren�t what you�d
find on a chamber of commerce brochure either.
An official report from the Milwaukee police department reveals more:
In the city, the homicide rate for black residents is 27.9 per 100,000
compared to 9.7 for Latinos and 1.7 per 100,000 white residents.
Of known 2011 homicide suspects in Milwaukee, 93 percent are black,
while 4 percent are white and Latino. The city itself is 40 percent
black, 17 percent Latino, and 37 percent white, according to Census
figures.
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee sociology professor Aki Roberts
shared his view of these troubling patterns with WND.
�Milwaukee�s discrepancy does appear to be larger than the national
average. Part of the reason may be that Milwaukee is one of most
racially segregated cities in the United States,� he says.
Roberts added, �In 2011, the black unemployment rate in Milwaukee was
22.4 percent compared to 9.6 percent for whites and 16.7 percent for
Hispanics,� which �parallels the racial disparity in homicide rates in
Milwaukee.�
However, as the homicide report shows, the black murder rate is 14
times the white murder rate, while the black unemployment rate is
double the white unemployment rate. From a different angle, Hispanics
and blacks have a similar unemployment rate, yet the Hispanic murder
rate is one third of the black rate.
The relationship between unemployment and crime is murky at best.
Harvard sociologist Christopher Winship tells WND, �Research on the
relationship between unemployment and crime, although considerable in
quantity, has produced ambiguous results, with some work showing a
positive relationship and other work a negative relationship.�
There have been times when severe unemployment has occurred while
crime rates drop. �Most surprising, crime rates went down during the
Great Depression. In the current recession they have been at 40-year
lows,� Winship points out.
Milwaukee is among the 20 most violent cities in the country. By far,
the largest number of homicides in Milwaukee occurred in one
much-discussed Zip Code, 53206.
A University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee project says, �The 53206 Zip Code
neighborhood serves as a bellwether for poverty changes in Milwaukee
and nationally.�
The report also notes, �In the 1990s prior to welfare reform in
Wisconsin it had the largest number of families receiving AFDC.�
In 2011, 17 of the 86 homicides in Milwaukee occurred in 53206.
Between 2005-2009, there were 95 homicides in this Zip Code out of 473
in the city as a whole. That�s 20 percent of all homicides, occurring
in a Zip Code with less than 5 percent (28,210) of the city�s 594,833
population.
Blacks comprise 96 percent of the Zip Code, Latinos are 2.1 percent,
and whites are 1.6 percent.
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CB
The culture that Progressives have nurtured was born out of pushing
equality between family life and broken homes having no father, no
stibility, no discipline, no natural affection
From the article:
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�Milwaukee�s discrepancy does appear to be larger than the national
average. Part of the reason may be that Milwaukee is one of most
racially segregated cities in the United States,� he says.
A sub-culture of low lives who put government handouts before God
given talent and self respect.