Camden, Root Causes and Money

This from the Courier Post:

The owner of an East Camden store fatally shot a man attempting to rob the business while holding the owner's wife at knifepoint Friday afternoon, authorities said.
The shooting, the city's 54th homicide in 2004, occurred about 12:30 p.m. at Camden City Wireless and Fishing Supplies in the 2600 block of Westfield Avenue.
The man walked into the store and grabbed the proprietor's wife, according to a statement by Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi and Camden Police Chief Edwin J. Figueroa.
"He reportedly threatened her with a knife and told her he was robbing the store," said Bill Shralow, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.
The owner, who is in his 30s, drew a handgun and told the man to release his wife, who is in her 20s. When the man refused, the owner shot the man once in the head.
The would-be robber, a 32-year-old man whose last known address was in Philadelphia, was pronounced dead at the scene, Shralow said. His body was taken to the Camden County Morgue in Pennsauken for an autopsy. His name was withheld pending notification of his family.

This is your typical scumbag attempts to rob store and gets shot by law-abiding owner story. The bleeding hearts will scream and piss and moan about it, but that's an argument for another day. Read on:

"A lot of bad things have been happening lately," Francisco Gonzalez said, noting police had chased a rapist, who had been plaguing the neighborhood, behind his home on 22nd Street.
The neighborhood is often noisy. He said he learned about the shooting only after police arrived and he asked detectives what was happening.
"There are a lot of cops here," said Margarita Gonzalez. "But, the more cops there are, the more violence you see. It should be the opposite."
A block down 27th Street, Jose Henriquez, owner of La Espanola Grocery Store, said he's been robbed at gunpoint four times, the last time eight days ago.
"It was a 12- and 16-year-old," he said of the gun-wielding bandits. "I've been lucky that nothing has happened to me."
With Friday's shooting, a total of 54 people have been slain during 2004 in the city, including four by police and one by the store owner.
The city's record number of homicides is 60 in 1995.

I've talked about Camden before, it's the most dangerous city in America, finally beating out Detroit for this great honor. Camden is a great example of what happens when you follow the Democrat mindset and throw money at the problem. Camden has received increasing funds for as long as I can remember. The schools are in complete disarray, the city government has screwed the city over too many times to count (this is a problem throughout the state) and still they keep throwing money at the problems.

Democrats are big on "root causes", a great example is Liberals searching for the "root causes" for 19 islamic men flying three planes into buildings and another into a field in PA. When will they talk about the root causes for the utter failure that is Camden?

Why are twelve year old kids robbing stores? Where are the parents? Where are the role models? Why do Liberals not have the guts to examine these root causes? Perhaps because they won't like what they find once they start asking.