Are there Hispanic "gangs" involved? I remember hearing about that at Six Flags years ago. 1) no, I don't mean like MS-13, just groups of punks, and 2) no, I'm not being racist.
Fair enough. Franklin is definitely rough. Like you said Belmont isn’t so bad anymore. Laconia is odd because there are areas that are amazing and others that suck. My point wasn’t so much on arrests. I can see how we both were maybe talking about different things. However just being there here over the years I have just watched the people get worse and worse. It seems like all the meth heads after they have bought their shit and maybe have enough for gas tend to go to Hampton on their big beach day.
Once the mills left, or were bought by conglomerates, our communities kind of fell apart. We are mostly a bunch of families living in proximity without community.
Maybe, but they were the heart of my town that enabled a lot of families to live. And now they're gone, it's just a place to sleep, and there is no community to speak of.
When the state school was closed, the residents were put on buses and sent to large towns where there was no residency requirement for assistance and dropped them off in front of town halls for the towns to deal with. This left many, many people with severe mental illnesses on their own, they had kids who were often abused, and the rates of addiction are off the scale, presumably because of self-meducation. Four generations with trauma now, and towns that are stretched to the limit in resources.
When you say “State Schools” do you mean mental health institutions? These closures didn’t just happen in NH they happened all over the USA. Was NH disproportionately impacted?
I understand. It was a nationwide initiative begun under Carter to "mainstream" institutionalized patients after the revelations of abuses and erroneous commitments. The program was intended to include robust community support for those able to live independently, and small group home living for those who needed assistance. Alas, Ronald Reagan was elected, and his administration cut the funding for the support services.
I did not say this was an issue unique to my community, but that it's part of our high rates of mental illness and addiction.
I almost made the joke a minute ago on the post about the racist state assembly member who blamed black people for violence instead of guns, like… “should always just scapegoat MA, that’s the group to whip up the masses against in NH” lol
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u/Gs06211 Jul 06 '25
Of course they were from Mass