When zero tolerance was hailed by "scientists" showing off the "smashed window theory" and proving it by smashing windows poverty was just for the fringe groups. The "blacks", Latinos or other people generally discriminated against in the US. Now that the middle class descends into poverty rapidly the NYT starts to care?
Zero tolerance means a war on the poor. Like the "war on terror" or "the war on drugs" it does not solve the problem at all.
Poverty is always relative. You can be poor with the same amount of money the next guy is still OK with. Poverty depends largely on sociological factors. People who are embedded in some kind of social order, who partake in society, are respected and have human relations to other people aren't as poor as those who are isolated, spat upon and criminalized.
I'd recommend reading The Grapes of Wrath, one of the greatest works of American literature and written during the Great Depression for some solutions.
Zero tolerance means a war on the poor. Like the "war on terror" or "the war on drugs" it does not solve the problem at all.
Poverty is always relative. You can be poor with the same amount of money the next guy is still OK with. Poverty depends largely on sociological factors. People who are embedded in some kind of social order, who partake in society, are respected and have human relations to other people aren't as poor as those who are isolated, spat upon and criminalized.
I'd recommend reading The Grapes of Wrath, one of the greatest works of American literature and written during the Great Depression for some solutions.