CHICAGO: Retirement communities and skilled nursing homes imply a level of elevated safety in their commercial pitch to prospective customers.
But evidence is mounting that age-apartheid compounds are increasingly becoming soft crime targets and the care sector is trashing its reputation by doing nothing to effectively counter the growing threat:
143. A gang of balaclava-clad, rock-throwing youths – some aged as young as 12 – are terrorising elderly residents.
One of the residents said a gang member, aged around 14 or 15 and wearing gloves and a balaclava, exposed his genitalia to her after she confronted him for throwing rocks at her front window.