I hear you. We’ve got the same problem here in NJ, folks just don’t like to bring it up. The Six Flags here is a magnet on any given day for tons of gang-bangers, mostly MS-13. It must be ‘’Gang-Bangers Family Day’’ because there’s always loads of these cockroaches and the wives and kids out all over the place. They practically take over the place.
The Six Flags just east of DC, in Maryland, is the same way. Bangers and thugs infest the place.
We have passes to King's Dominion near Richmond, VA and while there are a few questionable people there security is good and they don't try anything.
The place we like best is Busch Gardens, Williamsburg. The entrance fees are quite a bit higher and the thugs and riff raff stay away. It is the best family park we have ever visited.
When I was a kid we used to go to Great Adventure NJ all the time. The safari was one of the first parks of that type and everyone I knew went once.
After a few years the park was full of kids from local schools (minority) and we stopped going because the place seemed lawless. They would push and shove and cut on lines, and we weren’t safe.
It was an eye opener for me. Everywhere I went (in school and such) I was told not to be biased, but when I went to Great Adventure I wasn’t safe because THEY were after ME, not the other way round like I was taught in school.
I think that was when I started to realize the libs in power were lying to me. The world wasn’t the way I was taught in school, and only people who were self deceptive as to reality believed it.