Truths that MUST be faced before the Community can recover (as in Baltimore)

Here are 22 things that if accepted and implemented would get us on the path to recovery. I don't expect many to occur. The cultural decline that brought us to this point won't allow for it.. but in case truth might just be your portion.. here are some: 

1. Middle Class Flight, when it got rough anyone who could leave, DID.  Leaving only the least able there to survive.  We NEED gentrification and the middle class to return.  I would if I could be safe.
2. Violent Crimes are proportionally committed by members of the community over any others
3. 60% of births are to children with only one parent.  Marriage is a rarity.  Homes are fragmented.
4. Prison inmates of all colors largest similarity is growing up in a home with no father
5. A secular godless public education system that exalts perversion in relativism and morality.  Public education is the enemy of the culture, children and the community.
6. Churches that seem to have little net effect for good up and down the streets of every block
7. Skill levels that could have helped many out of poverty, as were once taught in vocational education, are absent in the community schools. No one learns to cook, sew, build, cut, run a level, weld, repair cars, paint, drywall, glaze, carpentry and a hundred other things that would help them get jobs.  So they have nothing to offer.  Unions keep those who might try out of the guild, and give the jobs to rent seekers who look nothing like the community.
8. Government has made a culture of support and replecation of non productive activity (does anyone have any room left on their snap card?)  I heard that from a good christian girl.
9. Illegal alien laborers being brought in has made finding any job at any wage nearly impossible. It is still going on and accelerating.   Zoning and regulation keeps those who might find work from doing so because those jobs must go to prevailing wage union jobs...which no community member ever gets.  Unions, zoning and regulation are killing community jobs and development.
10. Alcohol and drugs are the downfall of many men who might have had a chance but for addictions.  This must come under control.  How about changing the rules to be like rural Minnesota.  No Alcohol in the community should be sold on Sundays, till 8PM otherwise. Nothing before noon ever.  It works.
11. Bars and nightclubs close at 1AM no exception.  The man who was killed at 4AM in a club on the west side that left a family of children made me wonder more about HIM than the club.  This is a cultural problem.  Who is out at 4AM?
12. Curfews for anyone under 18 after 12 pm or you are under arrest. It's how it is where I live, St. Charles IL (my son was stopped for this). No one should be on the streets at 2 in the morning under the age of 18 years old.
13. Prisons are full of non violent offenders from the community who if given a second chance MIGHT help the situation.  Let them go. We can do better than warehousing our men.
14. The justice system isn't just in many cases.  It can do better.  Rapid and efficient process.  No waiting in overcrowded jails to get someone to process paper.
15. Police have an impossible task in the current climate. They are tasked to keep order in a disorderly culture, without offending people, and yet keep the bad guys down.  This is impossible.  Crime control must start at home.  The cops will go on strike if this keeps up and the community will be left undefended.
16. Government efforts to "HELP" almost never do, they cost a lot of money and create division.
17. Public education hobbles anyone who might want to move up.  It has become the enemy of advancement.  An illiterate high school graduate is legendary in the community.  Get rid of this albatross and voucher every child for Ten Thousand Dollars to spend as they see fit and watch the marketplace respond. Churches everywhere will fight to get students. IF the Schools do not offer what is needed, Parents can pull them, the money follows and put them where results are found.
18. Dividers of all stripes have convinced members of the community that if they just joined this or that cause they would be better all the time getting them to support with money and votes things contrary to their best interests.  People put hope in hopeless things.  They allow the parasites to persist.  It's time to start anew.
19. The minimum wage for those who drop out of High School, or were "educated" in public schools, is destroying any chance of personal development.  There should be no minimum before 21 to give jobs to those who could be able to develop skills as an apprentice. Minimum wage today only serves to keep the weaker candidates out of the work force.. so they end up on the streets.
20. Money held out to be the answer to everything never is.  Most "Support" is wasted on bureaucrats.  Only 30% of government help for the poor ever reaches the pockets of the needy.  Private institutions like the salvation army and others are far more efficient.  They won't waste money like government does.
21. Cultural mainline entertainment must be less violent, crude, evil and nonsense.  That includes music, film and TV.  This is a national problem that only amplifies the problem. When I heard a friend of mine say "you can learn a lot of good things from the Housewives of Atlanta".. I knew we were in big trouble in the culture. Listen to the language of the street.  It is even in the church.  We have to clean up our mouths. Then there's Kanye...
22. Stop blaming others for the problems.  If you consider this you will find that much of the resolution of these things must come from within.  More important start seeking truth.. there are too many lies told, fantasies, myths and crazy theories. Truth is the building block on which community must be built.

Will we build up or tear down?