He sounds like a clueless liberal. He touches on a liberal idea that peoeole get robbed and attacked because the criminals are feeling victimized and are grappling with poverty. Liberals can’t get their arms around these knockout games. They can’t understand someone committing crimes for no reason. To liberals there must be some underlying reason such as poverty to explain crime.
When you’re beat by people dressed in rags and worn hole filled shoes then you can suggest poverty.
A lot of people try and equate modern poverty with christian concepts of charity. Our poor have little in common with ancient poverty. Our able bodied men live relatively comfortably on welfare and desire luxuries. Back then poverty was usually caused by scarcity, infirmity, widowing, or some other intervention to good stable life.
Our poor acting up criminally do so due to spiritual poverty and not material poverty.