Milwaukee County's Sheriff David Clarke is a no-nonsense kind of guy. So when it comes to speaking plain truth, especially about the violent riots that turned his town into the next Ferguson, there's nobody who can lay it out any clearer.

At a press conference Sunday evening (video below), Sheriff Clarke explained what was really at the root of the violence, including "failed urban policy," "failing public schools," and "father-absent homes":

“Police use of force serves as an igniter — there’s no doubt — but to an already volatile mix of urban pathologies, failed urban policy that exacerbates inescapable poverty, failing public schools, inadequate parenting. Father-absent homes — we all know when fathers are not around to shape the behavior of young boys, they often times grow up to be unmanageable misfits that police have to deal with in an aggressive fashion," said Clarke.

Clarke went on to say that, "We cannot have the social upheaval – the chaos that we saw [Saturday] night that frightens good, law-abiding people in those neighborhoods, that destroy businesses where people work – some probably as a means to support their family."

He hammered it home by summing up the real problem: "[W]e keep focusing on the police, we keep focusing on the police, and I’ve said publicly before, ‘Stop trying to fix the police. Fix the ghetto.'"

The sheriff also read the arrest records of both of the men involved in the traffic stop that lead to the shooting, sparking the riots. He noted that not only did the deceased man have a gun, but his criminal record and his partner's were filled with crimes that should've warranted further sanctions, but for one reason or another the men were let off numerous times.

"We're seeing it time and time again, when some individual goes out and does something heinous, we look, and they have a long lengthy criminal history that nobody applied any sanctions to, or meaningful sanctions let's put it that way," Clarke told the media.

Exit thought from the sheriff on protecting yourself while the government puts you on hold:

Partial transcript via TheBlaze.