Issue is a reflection of culture in poor low skill low education ethnic areas. During decades past when the wage gap between middle classes and poor was much lower, most of those poor with modest effort could still manage to integrate in USA society and enjoy a lawful ok life. But in this era with a much wider wage gap and inflation, while Wall Street and their politicians are allowing our country to be overrun due to open borders and visa overstays, those same poor folks are in a desperate hopeless squeeze. Most of their former low paying jobs have been taken over by much more motivated immigrants to survive under the circumstances that will readily live together like sardines just to make it. So many of our traditional poor have not surprisingly turned to crime and black market activities to support their lives. Worse many become homeless making their situations even more desperate. Because politicians have turned their backs on obvious solutions, those criminally minded poor continue to increase with little resistance.
Here in the SFBA, our more affluent neighborhoods are suddenly being the target of those driving in from poor areas and in kind, some politicians are now running scared that their long period of ignoring those issues is coming to an end lest their constituents vote them out as has already begun in SF and LA. Same thing will happen elsewhere nationally folks in large urban regions. As that does, youths will pick up on the vibe that it is culturally ok to prey on the Haves. But given their lack of common sense, will sometimes go about doing so in ways that make national news. Adult criminals already are using youths to actually commit auto and retail thefts because of our ridiculous state laws that "protect" them from any public exposure or effective punishments lest they be burdened with a criminal record for the rest of their lives.
Our system is broken.
