No, I’m not. We know from all the stats that it’s the caring that goes first. Step 1 of a neighborhood going down hill is not replacing the street lights when the burn out. Criminals are lazy, they don’t put in the work to ruin a neighborhood. They find a neighborhood that’s already lost.
The problem is the people who let it get that way so the sweet old lady was trapped. Every Projects we had in this country started nice. But they didn’t care, and it became bad. We’ve got this crap documented in neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood. And it does NOT run the cycle you say. That’s the plot of bad movies. Reality is much more tragic. The people in the neighborhood stop taking care of it. It becomes dark. And run down. And the criminals moved in. That IS the cycle. Has been for decades, over a hundred years, in America, Europe, Asia. You want your neighborhood to be good, start by keeping your house up, then help out your neighbor.
And stop watching dumb movies that make it seem like gangs just pick on neighborhoods. Really if gangs were going to take a neighborhood down Bel-Air would be a ruins. Think about it, bunch of rich unarmed liberals with lots of cool stuff to steal. That’s a place worth targeting. But the people there keep it well lit, and well repaired. No gangs.
You and I live on different planets.
I have seen many areas that were nice go downhill fast.
What happened was that a few “bad” families moved in—then the crime rate went up—then the good people started bailing.
I have seen it with my own eyes here in CT.
You give me ten criminal “families” determined to rip off and terrorize their neighbors and any community will go down the toilet in a hurry.
The most common example were public housing projects. Once single black moms moved in with their “good boys” they went down the toilet in a hurry. As long as the “good boys” live there hope is gone.