Windflyer....I have a job that has me on the subway systems of Chicago every day. I’ve lived here all my life and it’s never...even in the 70s been this bad. Its a constant ghetto menace. All the cups are trying to hold down the south side...the predators have moved north. It’s lawless.
I moved out of the L.A. 'hood' in 1983 and never looked back. After having spent a couple of years of my childhood and all of my teenage years there, I knew when it was time to make a break for it.
Sounds to me like the plague is spreading all over your city. May be time to make a break for it.