Actually this time you got it right. Yes “bad” families move in, people not taking care of things. Those aren’t gangs, those are people who don’t give a crap.
Remember the Projects started nice. But nobody took care of them.
See you went from blaming gangs, who are actually the last people to move into a spiraling neighborhood, to residents who don’t care. We’re now in complete agreement.
A gang is just when criminals band together to protect each other.
I think we are debating definitions here.
In CT most of the “gangs” are very disorganized/fragmented—in fact that is the cause of most of the shootings in urban areas—turf wars.
“There is no honor among thieves.”