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A non-religious person from the American city of Auckland, state California has been able to significantly reduce crime rates in in his area, by placing a 60-centimeter Buddha statue in the middle of the street, purchased at the nearest hardware store.
A couple of years ago, the Auckland area between 11th Avenue and the street 19 East Street was considered dysfunctional. It was constantly committed various crimes: from illegal dumping of garbage and vandalism to robberies and prostitution. It even came to killings.
Local resident Dan Stevenson one day decided that it’s necessary to somehow deal with what is happening. The “heart” of all of this disgrace, according to the man, there was an illegal dump near his house, where the neighbors threw old furniture, mattresses, clothes and things like that.
In this place, drug addicts, drug dealers, homeless and other marginalized. Waiting for the weekend, Dan personally took out all the garbage and installed in the place of the former landfill a kind of Buddhist altar, the main decoration of which became the above sculpture.
Surprisingly, the local people did not dare to dump anymore here unnecessary things. Moreover, they began to improve themselves improvised altar, bringing with it candles, icons, vases with flowers and other decorations. Today it is one of the cleanest and nice looking places throughout Auckland.
Stevenson didn’t even suspect that the Buddha statue would be on the neighbors such a beneficial effect. And as the landfill disappeared, the area drug dealers, prostitutes and robbers began to leave. Families Vietnamese immigrants volunteered to clean the streets to the energy around Buddha was even cleaner.
Dan did a little research and determined that since how an unusual altar appeared in this part of the city, level crime rate dropped here by about 82 percent. By at least that’s what official police statistics say. By by the standards of the United States, these are very impressive numbers.
Thus, if you believe that the world around you alone cannot be changed, then you are probably mistaken. Dan Stevenson proved on the example that it is quite feasible. Apparently, many people are always ready to do the right thing – if only there was some incentive for this.
