[1010RD]

We closely associate poverty with the urban environment. While cities do concentrate poverty that heretofore has been invisible in the Styx, the truth is that urban policies promulgated by liberal Utopians not only concentrate poverty, but exacerbate it.

The level of lawlessness in Chicago is incredible. Utterly unbelievable and our cops are scared, really scared.

Earlier this year I directly witnessed a car turn the wrong way onto a one way street in front of a squad car. The officer waved, but that didn’t stop the driver. The officer honked, but that didn’t stop the driver. The officer turned on the lights and siren and that didn’t stop the driver who simply waived and went on.

[PowderMonkey]

"While cities do concentrate poverty that heretofore has been invisible in the Styx, the truth is that urban policies promulgated by liberal Utopians not only concentrate poverty, but exacerbate it."

I do not agree that poverty has anything to do with what we now witness. Though young and unemployed, the perpetrators enjoy a high standard of living. None have ever experienced the scourge of hunger, disease, or homelessness. All own cell phones, wear expensive sports attire, live in abodes with microwave ovens, HD TV, and Internet access. Food is in plentiful, greasy supply. What we are witnessing is the failed concept of the single "parent" whose child is "reared" by institution, in the absence of religious teaching, within a culture of moral relativism, glorifying violence, and obsessed with drugs. The outcome was predictable. Got ammo?