[KosmicKitty]

Look what happens when you give up on "Broken Windows"

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-windows/304465/

[cnsmom]

If you worship in the shadow of Rahm Emanuel and the Obama mayor rules cities that spent decades rebuilding are destroyed PDQ.

[KosmicKitty]

If you've never heard of "Broken Windows" I think the following sums it up:

"Second, at the community level, disorder and crime are usually inextricably linked, in a kind of developmental sequence.

Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken.

This is as true in nice neighborhoods as in rundown ones.

Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.