Recent news articles have highlighted the crime rates for Albany, Schenectady and Troy. Maslow's hierarchy of needs suggests the basic-level needs of food, clothing, shelter and security must be met before higher-order development can occur.
These crime rates need to be addressed by officials in all three jurisdictions and surrounding areas.
Those in social services, education, police work and even food services know that our area — with its excellent transportation network — has easy mobility for problem-causing elements from within some cultural and social groups. If one jurisdiction, say Albany, tightens enforcement, there is easy mobility into other locations like Schenectady or Troy or even Amsterdam, Saratoga and Hudson.
Leadership from Capital Region urban centers must communicate, cooperate and coordinate to solve crime and security problems. Starting at the executive and mayoral levels, district attorneys, sheriffs, police chiefs and social service leaders ought to gather to address crime problems and their remediation. Only once everyone plans and implements together will the regional crime problems be successfully resolved.
A planning approach called "the troika," named after a Russian vehicle drawn by three horses abreast, has been used in other areas to emphasize the role of cooperation in the achievement of successful action plans.
The real and basic question is: Can our leaders pull together to solve those problems that affect everyone? As a patriot said, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
These crime rates need to be addressed by officials in all three jurisdictions and surrounding areas.
Those in social services, education, police work and even food services know that our area — with its excellent transportation network — has easy mobility for problem-causing elements from within some cultural and social groups. If one jurisdiction, say Albany, tightens enforcement, there is easy mobility into other locations like Schenectady or Troy or even Amsterdam, Saratoga and Hudson.
Leadership from Capital Region urban centers must communicate, cooperate and coordinate to solve crime and security problems. Starting at the executive and mayoral levels, district attorneys, sheriffs, police chiefs and social service leaders ought to gather to address crime problems and their remediation. Only once everyone plans and implements together will the regional crime problems be successfully resolved.
A planning approach called "the troika," named after a Russian vehicle drawn by three horses abreast, has been used in other areas to emphasize the role of cooperation in the achievement of successful action plans.
The real and basic question is: Can our leaders pull together to solve those problems that affect everyone? As a patriot said, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
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