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You would be wrong.

Recessions, depressions, anti-Catholic bigotry made jobs difficult to find, and the Five Points turned dangerous. Marriages collapsed. Youth gangs were formed, to create a sense of family among fatherless boys or as a means of self-protection against other gangs. A familiar New York story.

Those gang members often moved on to crime, a step that is not surprising either. Crime is not a job, after all, but it is an occupation. Some young Irish women – often abandoned by their men -- peddled their bodies to rich men on Broadway in order to feed their children. Others fell into alcoholism or opium addiction. But as Tyler Anbinder suggests in his study, the constant turnover in population told another story: many of the poor endured, worked hard, and then moved up and out of the Five Points.

Pete Hamil, TRAMPLING CITY'S HISTORY 'Gangs' misses point of Five Points

[EvasiveManuever]

You are comparing the modern criminality of blacks (and mexicans) to the Opium Era in Britain?

Seriously?

Home invasions, brutal beatings and rapes, not to mention killing and raping children, carjackings, murder for gang initiation, murder simply because of skin color, and so on. Seriously??

At the HEIGHT of their ignorance and power even the (Democrat) KKK was less injurious to public safety, health, morals and committed less crime than happens yearly in modern cities by so called “minorities”.

And let’s not forget the welfare cost, either. How much of all the is productive ends up as theft into the pockets of these inner city animals? Food stamps, services, medical care, drugs, and so on.

Nothing on Earth has ever existed like it. Wealth transfer that DWARFS the tribute paid to Roman Emperors to keep our animals in a mental cage.

War would be far cheaper in blood and coin.

How many cures for cancer, moon bases, rocket ships, fusion reactors or other achievements have been lost to taxation and wealth theft.

How many modern conveniences and productive endeavors (Store, shops, malls, businesses, transportation hubs) have not been built in these areas for fear that the animals would tear it down, burn it, rob it, steal from it, paint it with spray paint, and so on?

We would be far better off with King George back.