Shootings ?

A week later, and the corner where people were shot is still thick with people smoking crack in broad daylight, and even thicker at night. Intimidating punks who wannabe big time dealers cruise for their next deal.

Why ? Because no one cares about assholes shooting each other. Because to the immigrants who live here, it's better than the rat-hole Third World place they escaped, and no one cares about them either... Because somewhere in the police department, an officer is getting his cut of the thriving drug business, and there would be riots on the streets if the flow were cut off. Because in spite of the veneer that exists outside of the Tenderloin, the United States operates the same way every other country does; much of it off the books.