"I believe the root of crime is desperation."
You are idiotically mistaken.
The root of crime is criminals.
Every black person in America who needs the help receives free education, free healthcare, free food, free housing, free spending money, free cell phones, favored admission to government employment & contracts, favored admission to post-secondary education ...
... and with all that, we STILL have 5% of the population committing more than 50% of the violent crime.
That 5% would be the percent of the population that is young black males.
It would seem that we could give them INFINITE resources, and they'd STILL murder, rape and rob us at numbers vastly greater than their share of the population.
And THAT seems to me a bad plan.
@Grok - Rank poverty levels in Tennessee's Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville, indicating the % Black people portion of each figure. Then rank each area based on education level, indicating the % Black people portions of each figure.
I believe the root of crime is desperation.