The unaffiliated "teens" robbing stores and attacking random people on the street are WAY more dangerous than the B/C/LK when I came up.

Even just the concept of "truancy" is forgotten, now. Nobody is going to "bust" you for being out of school, smoking weed on the street, blatantly robbing a store, or beating the shit out of an old woman these days.

The evidence of our empire's collapse is apparent to Native New Yorkers more than anybody else in the country can even begin to comprehend. We are so unbelievably fucked.