Food deserts occur because we tolerate petty crime in the name of wokeness. I'm seeing this play out in my own inner city neighborhood where grocery stores are talking about closing after the city destaffed police.
In fact, if you have good mixed use cities, your city shouldn't even need much policy in the first place.
Safety doesn't come from policy, but civil society. If you are relaying on policy to operate a basic store in a city you know you have big problems already.
And blaming 'wokeness' for the problems of inner cities in the US is crazy.