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Live blog: Million Dollar Blocks – Using mapping tools to create safer communities
Posted on April 29, 2009 | No CommentsCrime in America on the increase, the rate of recidivism is high and it is costing the government millions of dollars to convict and incarcerate people. Wouldn't this money be better spent on the neighborhoods where prisoners are from? Couldn't the cost of locking people up be reinvested in the neighborhoods where they're from in civic programs like health and education? This is the concept of the 'Million Dollar Block.'
