I wouldn't be so pessimistic as to call it "beyond fixable". It just takes a real effort at restoring law and order, where people who commit crimes know they w

I wouldn't be so pessimistic as to call it "beyond fixable". It just takes a real effort at restoring law and order, where people who commit crimes know they will be attacked for doing so. That there's an expectation that they will be worse off for committing those crimes than if they were to not do so. A direct juxtaposition of the status quo where most of these people see "not stealing" as a less optimum outcome than "steal something and gain more stuff/money". Granted, that's a tall order, but not a cycle that cities in the US have not had to go through in the past. The hardest part as I see it, is that at it's core it takes a political shift away from the kind of "progressives" that view those committing the crimes as the victims and those being victimized as the "oppressors". The challenge is how to make people wake up and see it before things hit even more of a rock bottom. Not just see it, but vote out those who do not and vote in people who actually make protecting victims of crime as their top priority.