This kind of problem could lead to shops completely closing in some areas, making life even more difficult for locals. I don’t blame the businesses for closing though, as it’s potentially unprofitable, there is little help from police, and they’ll likely struggle to find anyone willing to work in such places after a while.
Yup, 13 years of stealing from the poor to give to the rich, of cutting services, of massive fiscal fuckups, plus a couple of things beyond government control, and it’s inevitable that we’re going to start seeing industrialised looting and crime.
Government are party to that so called industrialised looting.