You know what else fights juvenile crime? After school activities. I imagine you could save a lot of taxpayer money and fight crime if you just kept the HS gym open until 10pm.
In pandemic times, school buildings are (mostly) closed, but schools are open virtually. Not a perfect solution for the problem, but a necessity of the situation. Will get better hopefully soon.
It's simple but can be very impractical. I grew in Tampa, FL (about 20 mins from Pasco county).
Much of the state is suburban hell and requires a car to get anywhere. Entire cities are designed to not be walkable. Public transit is even worse, to give an example how bad it can be. When I was in college it took my 2-hours taking the bus versus a 20 minute car ride.
Now imagine that you have an average school with average facilities, how are you going to transport kids to and from school afterhours? What if you need to use facilities at another location because the nearest park is a 10-minute drive away?
I know the org Strong Towns is very popular on here, and I think we are going to start to see how costly suburban planning is going to become within the next decade.
You're going to transport kids the same way I did it and the same way countless other kids did it since Henry Ford started mass producing the Model T, by bumming rides off of the guy/girl who has a car.
