I grew up in this violence.
It’s all about drug turf. All of it is senseless. I had a childhood friend murdered because his older brother was a dope boy who was the actual target, but these pieces of shit will kill family members now all the same.
It’s highly localized to the neighborhoods caught in the crossfire, and it stinks. There are no jobs, and the only way out is through luck or sheer willpower. You need to overcome a lot of trauma, and fight for every chance you can take to get out. A lot of good people will do bad things for the next high...
You have cops that don’t have the resources to stop the problem, and even one or two bad seeds that work to enable the criminals by pitting them against one another in a “darwin” bullshit way.
Emperor Rahm likes to spout out statistics that violence has never been lower, but for the people who live through it...it sure as hell doesn’t feel like it.
Give the drugs away free. In clinics.
Take the money out of drugs, you take the crime out of drugs. The War on Drugs has failed.