The author touches on what she calls “an underlying problem”, but then doesn’t define what that underlying problem is.
The underlying problem is that urban ghetto culture is toxic, and that culture generates violence. In urban ghetto culture, a major crime is “dissing”, or disrespecting someone. When one is dissed, in urban ghetto culture, one responds with violence. The youth gangs are violent, and settle all slights, real and imagined, with guns.
But, due to political correctness, we are not allowed to talk about ghetto culture and its toxic effects. Instead, we are compelled to dance around the problem, lest we be called racist.
In a documentary on the "Roaring 20's", since a high percentage of people in speakeasys were armed, and you never knew who was carrying or what they were carrying, it was better to be polite and apologize for any verbal or physical faux pas.
Exactly. You rarely, if ever see middle-class suburban areas have the types of violent crimes occur in them. It is almost always the urban ghetto where most residents only know violence and don’t pay for their rent, utilities, etc. themselves so them make no effort to improve their neighborhood.
This usually ends in them demanding the police solve the problems of their crime ridden areas, while refusing to cooperate in any PD investigation.