Ward Cleaver wrote:
Why are there so many
[1] homeless people, why are there so many
[2] crime infested neighborhoods and cities?
[1] Homelessness had increased for four straight years *before* the pandemic hit. The last three of those years, DJTrump was President and Ben Carson was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Maybe ask them?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/us/politics/homelessness-coronavirus.html[2] Meanwhile, as of 2019 the U.S. crime rate was *less than half* of what it was in the bad old days of, say, the first George Bush's administration. Your post implies that crime had been increasing; that is not the case.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm