Then the parents are arrested for letting the kids walk to schools. Because it’s more important for the police to make arrests than to walk a beat.
Ride the bus? Works great until some kid pulls a knife on another kid on the bus.
I'm a veteran inner-city school teacher. And I'll tell you something right now. If my kid went to my school, no way would I let him ride a bus. No way. Too dangerous. Not kidding.