Remember late last year I wrote about how the murder rate in African-American communities such as Camden and Detroit were essentially acting as population control:
That was a record. Now for the longest time I could not understand the gravity of the murder rate in terms other than it's impact on business, employment and community stress. But now, all late, it has dawned on me how bad this is. If you the reader don't understand, then lets look at it in terms of a school. The average urban school class has 30-35 students. I'm going to go with the smaller number. If you have 67 people killed, it would be like every year, two classes of students simply disappearing.
Now coming from the Detroit News:
Nearly 500 Detroit children have died in homicides since 2000 — an average of nearly three dozen a year.
That's just the children. in 15 years, 500 hundred kids (and their potential kids, and their potential kids) gone.
Poof.
From
Michigan Capitol Confidential:
At the high school level, Detroit had 767 high school teachers and 24,466 high school students. That’s a 29 to 1 pupil to teacher ratio.
So high school. 29 students. 500 dead children equals 17 empty classrooms. That's pretty heavy.
Imagine if tomorrow you dropped your kid off to school and when you walked by the classrooms usually bustling with kids, a whole row of them were empty. Two rows? The entire hall of homerooms empty. Get it now?
