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Closing remarks on poverty, societal conditions, and adequacy of current policing tools
1:35:45
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Council Member Yusef Salaam offers closing remarks that broaden the discussion to include societal factors such as poverty and their impact on crime. He emphasizes the need for a more comprehensive approach to addressing the root causes of violence.
- Salaam highlights the connection between abject poverty and crime
- Questions the adequacy of current policing tools in addressing underlying societal issues
- Suggests that desperate situations created by poverty lead to criminal behavior
- Implies that current approaches may not fully address the complexity of the problem
- Recognizes the joining of Council Member Vernikov to the session
Yusef Salaam
1:35:45
You're welcome.
1:35:46
I just want to make sure some of the stuff I heard so far is concerning beyond the subject matter of what is what we're talking about today.
1:36:01
And it's concerning because without the introduction of studies like what happens when you add abject poverty to abject poverty and what conditions it creates.
1:36:16
We know that when people are in desperate situations of course, you know, as they say in the streets, if you got food on your plate I'm gonna find out how to get that food off of your plate.
1:36:27
Right?
1:36:27
And so the challenge of being able to restore balance in a society where there's a great amount of people who do not have because they're in abject poverty causes the situations that we're trying to fight with tools that might not necessarily be fully adequate according to what I'm understanding council member Stevens to be saying.
1:36:49
I'd like to also recognize that we've been joined by council member Vernikov, and I want to pass the next set of questions over to council member Kaban.