Why is crime so low in Chinese Cities?

[dc_denizen]

Disinvestment and lack of opportunity exist in many parts of the western world. Not only black areas. Areas with very prosperous black populations and black leadership, like D.C., also suffered from high homicide rates.

Perhaps economic stress and cultural poverty induces different pathologies in different human populations? E.g. High suicide, child abuse, alcoholism, and overdose death rates in white people; high gun homicide rates and inter-neighborhood strife in black people.

But Black homicide rates in places like D.C. and New York collapsed as the cities became more integrated and prosperous. Perhaps white people moving in also is coincident with the return of authority, attention to crime by the government, and a real police presence on the streets.

So I think the first part of any solution requires the return of the State, so to speak, to areas that have basically devolved to a chaotic war zone without any central authority. Economic development is the next part.