I've tried to put myself in the residents' shoes. It's a very humiliating lifestyle. I think the city really should put in some streetlights and patrol the place more.
There is, every once in a while, an occasional well-kept home, where pride of ownership is obvious. It's amazing to see in an otherwise run down, depressing, have vacated jungle.
It goes without saying that, if I owned the pizza delivery company, I wouldn't necessarily expose my employess to excessive risk. They are an easy target. But I might get involved with the community to see what can be done to improve things.
And screw the "Racism" card.
I hated to be assigned that area! You would get looks of pure hate until they called for you to come stop Bad Buck from whipping mommas ass; then the looks of hate would reappear as soon as they didn't need you.
Johnny Dollar should be in the pizza biz.
That half vacated jungle had been fixed up pretty nicely in the early 90's. It took less than three years for it to be totally destroyed by the fine folks who live in the taxpayer provided housing.
My husband used to run cable in Mango Circle and the guys never went in alone, day or night. I have no pity for people who have no respect for anything.