Strength: EMOM For 10 Minutes Complete…
Even Minutes: 5 Push Press @ 70% of 1RM
Odd Minutes: ME Sit-ups
Metcon – 5 Rounds For Time:
10 Box Jumps (24/20)
10 KB Swings (53/35)
5 Box Jumps (24/20)
5 Thrusters (115/75)
*1 Minute Rest After Each Round…
To Fight Crime, a Poor City Will Trade In Its Police
Camden, NJ was recently featured in the New York Times (see link above). Camden in on pace for a record number of murders this year, 48 so far, on pace to break the record, 58.
Considering the fact that Camden is only 9 sq miles and has less than 77,000 residents, the city's murder rate per capita is downright disturbing.
There have been many attempts to combat the increased violence over the years but no tactics to date has proven to be effective.
After putting a good deal of thought and action into finding an alternative solution to fix the mess there, I think the best and only viable remedy at this point is to invest heavily in the youth of Camden: Increase the standards of the public education system. Require every child under 18 to attend school (dropping out of high school is illegal). Pour state and federal resources and aid into beefing up charter schools, public school and non-profit organizations dedicated to improving the lives of Camden's youth.
The youth of Camden is the city's only hope for a bighter (and safer) future.
The greatest discovery any outsider could make about Camden is it's overriding response to failure: If it didn’t work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE).
Every year they pass more laws, hire more police, build more prisons, and sentence more offenders for longer periods-all without moving one inch closer to “ending” crime. If it didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they spend more money on schools, hoping to “fix” whatever’s wrong with them, and every year the schools remain stubbornly unfixed. Spending money didn’t work last year or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Every year they try to make the criminals go away, and every year they remain with us. We couldn’t shoehorn these criminals back into the “the mainstream” last year or the year before that or the year before that or the year before that, but you can be sure we’ll try it again this year, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that it won’t work this year either.
Maybe its time to TRY something DIFFERENT.
Afterall, IF Camden is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
Much of my inspiration comes from Daniel Quinn in "Ishmael."
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