“Nip this s—t in the bud...”
Yes. The cities learned during the riots back in the ‘60’s and 70’s that you need to get control of this stuff immediately, otherwise it grows and gets worse.
It’s like stopping an infestation of bugs - you need to eradicate it fast, or the bugs just keep multiplying and get out of control.
The “Broken Windows Theory”, or as I call it ‘Grafitti Theory’, when the Hell did we decide having bleeding grafitti all over the place was ok?