The unrest is never going to be contained within LA. In the days to come these problems will spring up everywhere.
Are you in London yourself? I hear that crime has increased there too among the younger folk. I guess it is a trend everywhere and will get worse, as communities fall further apart.
Glad that your family are safe.
I don’t live in London, we’re close to Reading that’s 35 miles from the city. Sadly our nearby town has as bad record this past decade. There was a knife attack a few years ago in its main park, a homophonic one and more than one person lost their lives. Much like London it has seen a wave of knife crime in some housing estates. Driven by drugs, low income and a lot of gang culture.
We often see young people travelling around on high powered electric bikes, masked and just looking so suspicious it’s unreal. Here in the UK there is a drug network known as “county lines”, mainly operated by kids who’ve been sucked into this life by shady adults exploiting them, threatening them.
We were once walking through the main shopping mall in Reading which is very smart, clean and a decent place to go for stuff when a young masked (scarf across his face) walked past us at speed on his phone. We overhead him say, “Are you mobilised? Do you have your knife. Don’t be scary to use it. “
We watched him vanish around a corner. Should we notify the police? We just didn’t know.
Society has fallen apart at an alarming rate.
I have heard from friends it is pretty "stabby" lately. The same is happening all over the world too. Australia has a lot of knife crime too - for the same reasons. People just can't control themselves and be even half decent humans.
Never heard of county lines. Sounds like something out of a movie.
Totally off-topic:
Colleagues have talked about a bar in Reading called "The Purple Turtle". It was near the Reading office for a company I worked at.
Sorry to hear these problems are on the rise in Australia. County lines, there was a film and have just found it here - County Lines https://g.co/kgs/fr7YhWf
I do know of the Purple Turtle, yep it’s down Gun Street (ironically) https://www.purpleturtlebar.com/ The Purple Turtle
Have never been though but our kids have.