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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree OP. Sadly I don’t see the pendulum swinging back. We need a cultural reset. ATVs, dirt bikes and loud cars speeding through intersections at 100 mph with no regard for their fellow humans. 14 yr old car jackers. A mom and child shot by a madman who was going to run them over on a sidewalk. Open air drugging and gambling. It’s Gotham city. I’d like to move, if only I could afford to. [/quote]

I've lived in the city over 30 years and it was worse 30 years ago. By all accounts the 80's were even worse, and the 70's worse than that. The 60's? Forget about it, they burned the city down. The 50's were pure chaos. During WWII it was anything goes. The Great Depression and the Bonus Army March? Nothing was safe. [/quote]

It was not worse thirty years ago in the nice parts of the city. There were fewer nice parts, granted, but the crime was not as random as it is now. Same with the ‘80s - there was just a prescribed area where it was “safe.” [b]Now it’s a free for all all over[/b].[/quote]

It's not just that it's all over but that anyone can be a victim at any time of day. Thirty years ago, my mom out of town would send me notifications whenever there was a murder near where I lived. Every time it would end up being a drug deal gone bad. Now thugs will roll up on a family sitting on their porch with kids in the yard, take their wallets and phones at gunpoint and drive off in a car with fake dealer tags 100 percent confident that nothing will ever happen to them.

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