Last week, CBS-17 reported on a local Raleigh man, Brice Forman, who had 38 arrests, largely in the downtown area called Glenwood South, where many of the town’s bars are. The arrests frequently involved multiple charges for things related to theft, breaking and entering, trespassing, assault, breaking into motor vehicles, possession of drug paraphernalia, being intoxicated and disruptive, panhandling, and (in the latest arrest) a concealed weapon.
In the report, CBS-17 spoke to people on the street and at the businesses about the fact that, despite police frequently arresting and booking Forman, he remained in the community, where he would frequently do things like grab patrons food, start fights with passersby for no apparent reason, and engage in what they called odd and concerning behavior.
Journalist Chris Arnade — who, despite being a self-identified New York City socialist, has received praise by the likes of JD Vance and Tucker Carlson — focuses his work on areas of the country saturated in poverty and disorder.
Arnade said, on a recent trip on a Chicago commuter train, he witnessed open drug use, horrors of human hygiene, and people experiencing disturbing breaks with reality, but, “This didn’t shock me, or anyone else around me, since I’d seen some variation of this dystopian scene on every Chicago metro line I’d ridden, every pedestrian walkway I’d passed through, and on most street corners.”…