For those who didn't watch the video, the crime wave consisted of minors (defined as kids under 17) playing pinball machines and street advertisements for "girly show" cabarets being insufficiently covered during the daytime.
If they only knew what what coming...
They got a good taste during the Cuban Mariel invasion and the 70s and 80s drug wars.
“If they only knew what what coming... “
They did. They warned all who would listen during the fifties and sixties. The magazine’s Newspapers and TV news loved quoting them making their damning predictions of our likely future in contrast with interviews with younger people. I was a kid. I thought they were uncool geezers who should put their OTHER foot into their grave and lie down and stfu. Somewhere along the line I realized that the world they warned about was here.