Memphis faith leaders have called on community members to 'love thy neighbor' in light of a recent string of violent crime in the city, including kidnappings and shootings.
"At the end of the day, it's a universal, societal problem: disinvestment, disillusionment, systemic poverty, educational inequity," Greenstein said."This creates a recipe that cities like Memphis [are] working to combat." He added that"Memphis is no different than other cities," but the way it responds to tragedy"is the difference.
"While it's shifting and in some ways — in many ways in a good direction — there's not enough conversation about people who are being left behind in these transitions," he said."Particularly the youth and the poor; that's what happens when we removed certain key assets of the community that they need, particularly the youth. When we moved to the neighborhood and started doing community work, we began to quickly see that … it's an uphill battle in some areas.
He continued:"When you combine a large number of children in foster care with high poverty rates in the same area, you have a recipe for at a very young age for kids to just get into basic mischief, which can lead eventually to a worse state [like] breaking windows, violate properties, and the kids don't know any better.
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