[lbo-talk] crime rising in US cities

[Jordan Hayes]

I think the first article is on to something: the police are 'busy doing 
other things' and the street can feel it.  So it's general lawlessness 
that comes from feeling like it's possible to get away with it.  Power 
abhors a vacuum and all that.

I also happened to see this interesting article recently about how gangs 
have moved into the US Army ...

  "Lax enlistment standards have inadvertently allowed

   known members of the Crips, Bloods, Latin Kings, and

   various white supremacist groups to join the military ..."

http://www.radarmagazine.com/from-the-magazine/2007/05/gangs_of_iraq_1.php

/jordan