Let me help you out a little bit. This is an introduction to a slide-show of photographs, taken by the author who is a renowned photographer. You are supposed to read the introduction and then spend a majority of the time looking at the photographs. The introduction is simply there to provide a little context for the photos. Its purpose is to set-up the contrast between the child-friendly rhetoric and and actual physical reality of daycare and early education facilities in poor, urban America. The day-care providers' "crime" excuse does not mitigate the visible irony of the photographs, nor does it explain why so many are in re-purposed industrial buildings (although the answer to that would probably be "cost.")