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| France to outline blueprint plan for riot-hit suburbs |
| 2008-01-22 |
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| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #4 Hmmm, is a blueprint anything like a roadmap? |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-01-22 22:15 |
| #3 Wondering if this article had something to do with assault plans into a fortified position. I like the plan Anonymoose. The difference I see between New York and Paris is that the youts have insta-riot programmed on their speed dial, the population is sympethetic (stories of people throwing down bottles of water to counter the tear gas), and have some victories against the unarmed police. With stories about makeshift hospitals already set up and blunderbusses for use against police there may be -real- defenses and plans in place for police/military incursions. France, it seems to me, will have to take a major blow to its international image as the happiest place on earth in order to clean up the ghettos. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-22 12:18 |
| #2 "Despite an ambitious urban renovation plan, with hundreds of millions of euros poured into the town since the 1980s, jobless rates remain sky-high..." What's different this time you may ask. Isn't it obvious? Finally, after 3 decades, someone figued out they neeed a Blueprint. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2008-01-22 12:10 |
| #1 There is a way that this can be done: division gentrification. That is, subdivide the ghettos with an entire block of new buildings for businesses, that bisect them. With a police station as part of it. Effectively cutting the ghetto in half, and putting a lot of cops right in the middle of it. You set up small businesses run by locals in the new block, with tax incentives, on condition they hire locals. Using the Giuliani method, you put police all over the place on the two outward blocks, with orders to nit pick for every offense. This tends to drive out the troublemakers. And once a neighborhood is "cleaned", it takes far fewer cops to keep it "clean". This technique busts up the big ghettos in such a way that they tend to stay busted up, and it has a carrot as well as a stick. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-01-22 12:03 |