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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
I can always spot the person who wasn't old enough to understand how fantastically bad the late 70s, 80s, and 90s were for America's cities. Some of the poshest parts of todays' tier 1 American cities were shit holes.
To hear these people claim that crime is out of control in these very same cities that have basically re-populated (some of them to their all time highs) and (nearly) completely eliminated blight is just fantastically disconnected from reality.
I mean. You basically have to go to East New York in Brooklyn to find some semblence of urban grit at this point. It used to be at the first stop of every subway line leading from Manhattan into Brooklyn.
You can def tell who watches Fox News on these message boards.
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I’m grew up in the 70’s yes in some ways crime was worse, but it was different. Most of it was in the inner cities (murders, gangs, homes getting broken into etc), and not so much as it is today reaching the most distance parts of the suburban communities. I grew up in a very poor and rough part of the city (Watts), it was the one of the roughest part of south Central LA (East Side).
My siblings and I seen some things growing up, but yet nothing like the crazy we see today. I can tell you about the things that happened on public transportation such as kids jumping other kids, purses being snatched, gambling, and people announcing very loud gang affiliation, and buses being targeted and rocks busting out windows. Passenger s would duck when we pass through the projects to avoid getting hit by huge rocks coming through the windows. I remember seeing an old woman eyes cut from the shattered glass on a bus one time.
So my point is, today may not be as bad (especially not in the hood) but it’s all over the place. I’m used to seeing drunks, crackheads, homeless people, stepped over many just transferring buses in downtown LA every morning in high school back in the late 70’s.
Yes it is quite different today, I see crazy in all areas today. It’s not a California thing either, and as someone like myself gets older you don’t have the strength to fend off some younger crazy person. Also back when I was growing up, gangs would fight more than just shoot, and yes this was when crips were terrorizing the neighborhoods. I can’t even recall the crazy things happening on public transportation to the extent it is today. As a kid I rode the bus everywhere to the most distant parts of the LA metropolitan area, one used to be able to escape most craziness once you leave the inner city neighborhoods, but not today. It’s a very different society sickness today that was not happening back in the 60’s-80’s.