Selling a $20 rock of crack every 10-15 minutes? That would total $80 - $100 per hour ... times an 8 hour day... $800 per day?Yes, but with couriers, lookouts, etc. it takes a half dozen or so of them to run a crack house. So they're splitting $100 an hour gross between 6 of them. Figure in the wholesale price they pay for the crack and they're maybe doing $8 an hour with no benefits. This assumes that the rent is being paid by TANF, they don't waste profits on bail, and they let us taxpayers care for their wounded.
If the median income is something around $30,000 or $35,000 per year, they'd have to have some kind of killer marketable skills to compete with that.
No, the median income you're talking about is $15-$17 an hour.
I earn $20 per hour with 20+ years experience and 4 years of college... guess my "marketable skills" fit more closely with the income of the $10 per half hour trick.My assumption was questionable here- the prostitutes are usually being paid in crack, hence the term "crack whore". The "pleasant" experience produced by crack and other cocaine type drugs is easily equaled by legal prescription pharmaceuticals. So if the crack whores had more than a few functional brain cells left they'd get a job with health insurance and find a Dr. Good to write a script for some serious narcotics...
When the national UNEMPLOYMENT rate was at its lowest just a couple of years ago... the national CRIME rate was also at record lows. So... give the people jobs that pay em enough to live... and they don't need to sell crack and turn tricks.Agreed- Crime does tend to increase with unemployment. The best crime prevention program is a living wage job.
peace,
Dyna Sluyter, enjoying a quiet night in Hawthorne (the gangbangers next door that didn't get busted just moved out. Wonder what gangbangers will move in next?)
Wendy Introwitz Pareene Lyndale Neighborhood
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