Our US correspondents have been reporting on the US crime wave, which is transforming US cities into war zones. Whites and Asians have been under personal attack. But, in cities like Baltimore, there is open warfare between rival drug gangs. Innocent people have to not be there to avoid collecting a stray bullet or 50. And the latest phenomenon is for flash mobs to target department stores and coming as a mob, simply raid the place, gutting it. It is not food that they are seeking as the Left portrays them, but designer goods of the most expensive type. This has been devasting to businesses, many of whom are moving out of those problematic cities. But, soon it will be all major cities with this problem, as the economic crisis deepens.
The US is an important study since it shows where all this can go. It is happening now in New Zealand and Australia too, with shop lifting costing businesses around $ 10 a year. This is going down the American lines, of organised gangs, primarily, stealing to order, and flogging off stolen good on social media. According to one business manager, the stealing is no longer the odd person putting some small item in their clothing: “These days they’re filling up a trolley and pushing it back out the front door, and they don’t care who sees them.”