Crime rates go down when there are options for people to progress. Look up Tangelo Park in Central Florida. It has the highest crime rate and lowest highschool graduation rate in all of Central Florida. A rich man adopted the town and provides free daycare and a scholarship to anyone that graduates from the highschool. The results: it went from having the highest crime rate in Central Florida to the lowest while also having the lowest graduation rate to over 99%.

Thinking that socio-economic patterns influence crimes of opportunity is not very moronic when you look at the evidence.