I won't even go to Manchester anymore if I can possibly avoid it. Yeah, it's gotten that bad.
Hang on in there Sparky Rochester is next. Gangs moving in, not the Adult crazies but the kids 12-21.
I blame it on the courts that that do not kick butt and have relationships with by marriage or old time friends from the country club , old school ties, or a Lodge they belong to.
These kids get off easy and expect family and friends to keep them secure in what ever they do, drugs, any kind of crap they want to pull.
We of the old time family's know when a totally nutty kid or adult is being protected by the Town fathers and the police, the courts and Their victims are branded as in some way responsible for all this.
Had a 80 year old woman attacked in her home. Attacker was 17, climbed in through a cellar window unlocked. Woman was raped and robbed. Horror but to my surprise as the senior community found her at fault for not securing her home. The fact that the boy was the son of the social worker that decided what kind of care the Seniors could receive never Came into this.