It does appear there is a rising tide of thievery, vandalism and predation around the inner city. A lot of this is just routine deplorable types, who scavenge and steal to feed their bad habits. Worse are those that seem to target business owners and job sites, taking tools and ruining livelihoods of actual hardworking people. Now we are seeing attacks against the nature of development itself. There is a common perspective that infill is bad, nothing should change, worn out buildings decaying and vacant are ‘heritage’ and new housing is evil. You see some really awful examples of this mindset on Facebook community groups, Nextdoor app, and social media posts. Recently some degenerates torched a pile of lumber at an Inglewood location, actual arson, and pushed all the fences into the excavation. They basically just demonstrated a vast chasm between their own ignorance and those of the people that are rebuilding neighbourhoods from the inside out, often overcoming significant obstacles. At some point we will have to hire armed guards to protect our houses from these vandals, because the police don’t take it seriously. .
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