That's incredibly bad faith. How do you define crime? So if a law is passed that says its illegal to be homeless (another systematic consequence that marginalizes a growing number of people), well now crime has increased in the city because a new category of illegality has been introduced.
Veterans are more affected by homelessness than other demographics, and are now being targeted for violent incarceration because of a made up crime. Police departments get more funding as crime "increases," even though what has been scientifically proven to actually help eliminate homelessness among veterans, would be to get them some money, housing, food, mental health care, and social support.
Except it's cheaper to buy cops and prison cells than it is to help people, which means a higher percentage of the profits earned from exploiting workers like you go to landlords and mass murder. And those cops and prison cells are used disproportionately to harm black communities. It all comes back around.
But of course those homeless veterans committed a crime so you don't have to think about that.
Racism is just one way that the system convinces you to sell out your neighbors and accept worsening conditions than you deserve. You sell out your communities for the right to fight over scraps. It's myopic and small minded to reduce all social problems to personal responsibility, when the rich are clearly conspiring against you and other workers, especially black workers.
You'll eat shit, as long as it is a larger bowl than those whose oppression you ignore. You reduce the plight of others to personal responsibility because that's what fear and alienation does to people.
You're like the poor rural white worker who flies a confederate rebel flag, clinging to delusion rather than reality. Slave owning confederate planters only ever made white workers poor and disenfranchised, sent whites to die in a brutal war because we were worth less to them than their black property.
Made to hate yourself, you displace that hate onto others. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and you'll keep happily playing your part. I hope you are able to change and see things for what they are, rather than make excuses for a system that hates and exploits you. Hopefully you'll never be in a position where you need help but your very existence warrants constant investigation and incarceration. but looking at the world today, I don't really like our odds.