A city so overwhelmed by crime that the female perp of our burglary got time served and 3 years probation. She was on thestreet 2 weeks after her trial. The male perp got NOTHING — wasn’t even charged, even though he is the one who broke into the house. He had not stolen goods on him, even though he rofited from the theft.
The police are really nice, but overwhelmed with work. It is hard to get them to return a phone call. The streets are filled with people pushing cars and picking up stuff out of garbage cans. They have a centralized place where they sell it for pocket money.
When we were cleaning our Mom’s house, we hired a dumpster. We had to rout people out of it every morning. Made the mistake of putting an old couch in it first thing, and people started sleeping in there.
Granted-the only hard living I’ve ever done has not been in a city-but that sounds like an awful place to me just the same. I’d probably have tied up and gagged my relative, taken them home, treated them like royalty till they were seduced into getting rid of the crime trap. My mom was a loner, but she would have come to bro or me if the need had arisen, because it is the way things are done among us and we would share the cost of homecare from a person chosen by us-I don’t consider most “agencies” very trustworthy from what I’ve seen. Better an older person-maybe a very distant relative-who is strong and caring, but who may have lost work, and wants room and board-that is very common where I’m from...
You reinforce my aversion and dislike of cities, for better of worse...