Cities are over crowded with people who expect too much from the lessening resources available to them. Examples: Split-up parents that have to have a buffer (police or some other family assisting agency) when their children have to be exchanged for court ordered custody (parents are usually adults, right?), people who can't/won't deal with the issue that they should be handling themselves in the first place, people who refuse to take responsibility for their own mistakes- just to name a few. My picture of the typical city person is this: someone walking through a crowd, either holding a phone or listening to an Ipod, not paying attention to anything around them, oblivious to the criminals already plotting their take. And then when the assault/theft happens, call the police and wait for CSI to show up and catch the culprits. THEN, assuming they're caught, the subpoena comes, they don't show up