When we talk about social assistance, cautions must be made. In the Netherlands, reports have surfaced that the government is considering giving certain criminals a home. The logic is that if they have a home, they will not have to break the law. Poor people are not the cause of all crime. Wealthy people commit crimes, as do middle class people.
Incest is a crime committed by men from all classes.
Most of these men are intelligent, employed and were not victims of sexual abuse as a child. If poverty were the answer, then the depression must have seen the highest crime rates of all time. Alberta has seen a dramatic decrease in crime and they have in fact decreased their number of welfare recipients. Most welfare spending has been drastically reduced by the government. While community policing is an excellent idea, we must not lose sight of the work that police must do.