Check out a good piece in the Atlantic Monthly about the new distribution of crime in metro regions as suburban crime is increasing while city crime goes down.

The era of the housing project is long gone thanks to high concentrations of poverty, limited access to upward mobility, amongst other things.

With the end of it came section 8 vouchers to all, giving nearly-limitless opportunities to those from the aforementioned projects to live in the suburbs if they so desire.

And with that has come a trend suggesting the almost evenly distributed amount of crime throughout metro regions.

Perhaps a fair explanation of why Amherst crime has gone up while Buffalo crime has gone down?

Although I feel bad for a good family to get stuck with violent drug dealers around their homes I think it is fairly anti-social to assume that crime should be a problem for just a city. Perhaps if it is everyone’s inescapable problem, then society will take a far more thoughtful approach to solving the issues at hand. Perhaps the Sandy Beach thought process will be non-existent in the future.

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