Criminal gangs are a problem that have been growing for years in America unchecked. Their reach into the suburbs is driven by drugs, Liberalism and a breakdown of traditional morality. In the story below Jon Scott is discussing Bergen county New Jersey, considered an upscale area. I’ve been to Bergen and have met people there, they are by and large listless leftists suffering from ennui.

The children are raised by children, 50-year-olds who still smoke pot and leave their kids to their own devices while abdicating their parental responsibilities to the state.

The laws in New Jersey favor criminality with some of the most draconian gun and self defense laws in the country.

And the rich Bergen county kids have no hope of staying rich. New Jersey is lowly draining the money from their families with some of the most onerous taxes in the country leaving them with the knowledge that even if they are as successful as their parents they’ll never be as wealthy.

They are ripe for the picking, looking for a group to belong to that is strong enough to protect them, won’t abandon them and most of all has a future beside downward mobility. No amount of scared striaght programs will change that until the people of New Jersey change from charactures of east coast parents and into real communities whose kids don’t need drugs and gangs for fulfillment:

Fox has a transcript.