Ep. 646 - The single biggest factor impacting public safety in America? THE ECONOMY
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Hundreds of micro-factors impact what makes a home safe. A neighborhood. A community. A side of town. An entire city. But NOTHING impacts the safety of a place like the health of its economy. The economy is the single biggest factor impacting public safety in America.
When a home, a block, a neighborhood have true economic security, crime absolutely plummets. And, of course, the inverse is true. Without true, deep economic security, where people earn enough money to make it through the month, to care for all of their needs, and to grow and thrive, where that is missing, the toxic mix of poverty and despair rises.
Nothing would solve drastically reduce crime more than addressing the root economic issues at play that cause it.
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| 0:20.7 | Today I want to teach a very simple but I hope profound and important point for how you |
| 0:29.4 | see public safety in America. |
| 0:32.8 | I need you to understand one thing. |
| 0:36.0 | The economy is all about public safety. |
| 0:41.5 | In fact, I don't know that there is a bigger issue that impacts public safety than the |
| 0:48.3 | economy itself. |
| 0:50.9 | So every time we see people pouring, tons of resources and policing because they want |
| 0:55.9 | to solve issues of public safety, they should be pouring that energy and that money into |
| 1:02.5 | the local economy. |
| 1:04.7 | Let me unpack and explain what I mean and why the economy impacts public safety more |
| 1:10.7 | than any other factor. |
| 1:12.6 | This is Sean King and you are listening to The Breakdown. |
| 1:34.4 | If I had to choose just one single factor that impacts public safety in America, that impacts |
| 1:47.1 | safety particularly in America's cities and in black and brown communities in particular. |
| 1:55.8 | If I had to pick one single factor and they are, there are dozens of micro factors. |
| 2:03.4 | But nothing, no single factor is more important than the economy. |
| 2:10.5 | And I want to unpack and explain what I mean and talk about how inflation in particular |
| 2:18.6 | has hit black communities very hard. |
| 2:22.5 | I see it in my own family. |
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