But in “drugs, gangs, and domestic violence” areas, people never trusted the cops. Domestic violence was considered a private matter between husband and wife. Gangs have always ruled entire neighborhoods. People involved with drugs are usually hard to get to because they’re protecting their supply, their freedom, or their income. Is the author basing this opinion on some idealized Adam-12 / Dragnet view of the past? Because I lived through it, and it certainly wasn’t like that.
Plus, a number of older gangs originally started as neighborhood groups to protect neighborhoods that the police wouldn’t bother going to and turned to drugs later to fund themselves.
But in “drugs, gangs, and domestic violence” areas, people never trusted the cops. Domestic violence was considered a private matter between husband and wife. Gangs have always ruled entire neighborhoods. People involved with drugs are usually hard to get to because they’re protecting their supply, their freedom, or their income. Is the author basing this opinion on some idealized Adam-12 / Dragnet view of the past? Because I lived through it, and it certainly wasn’t like that.
Plus, a number of older gangs originally started as neighborhood groups to protect neighborhoods that the police wouldn’t bother going to and turned to drugs later to fund themselves.