It's impossible to go to college or enter the workforce and just switch off all the bad things in your past and present. From my experience a lot of my college friends who left midway through had family problems, often financial or health problems. Again this is stuff that poor people go through much more, and it negatively impacts their ability to hold down a job, finish college, and succeed in general.
It's a complicated issue but you seem to have no desire to understand it further than "get off your ass, get a job, and stop being poor".
And I strongly disagree that the US needs more police.
Surveillance is inevitable and if data and access are open, then I'm relatively at ease with it.
Edit: Crime is minimally related to poverty? I don't know how you can justify that statement.