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I agree, its not just the Cape, it all of SE Mass., even beyond. Second tier East Coast cities like Boston, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C. have seen crime skyrocket, were talking crime trends that have not been seen since the Reagan era. Philadelphia is averaging a homicide daily (that does not include people wounded or people with bad aim, missing...) and on one day earlier this summer they found 11 people dead in one day. Life has become a lot less promising for those caught in those neighborhoods, and unfortunately drugs seem to be the only employers around. The other problem is labor supply will always exceed the number of street corners so competition needs to be minimized. Drugs are in the suburbs as well, its just a smaller labor pool, less deadly competition. The most qualified street corner drug dealer's resume will always read killer, and if you are willing to kill for the love of money, you will gladly perform other duties (armed robbery, theft, B&E, assault) as needed. Its unfortunate that when the crime is in the city, no one much pays anything more than an interested 10 minutes tuned into the evening news, we are all so removed from those urban concrete and steel jungles, worlds away. However, when the tinted black lexus' with rims the size of a large pizzas start rolling in front of are white picket fences by Ava's wagon, only then do we begin to exhibit any concern.
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