[whimsicalism]

I've grown up in cities and lived in them my whole life. People in service and public-facing positions (including police) in cities generally are disinterested in doing their jobs, this has always been my experience.

The main development I've noticed in the past decade is an increasing share of people moving to the cities from suburbs where they were raised and expecting suburban level of service in the city.

[YeBanKo]

I don’t know, I would disagree regarding all public-facing positions being disinterested. While living in SF I had interactions with Park services, mainly requesting them to fix stuff, it was fine. They fixed / cleaned up things.

Regarding the police however I agree, but they did start using the “DA not gonna prosecute” way too often.

[SQueeeeeL]

Yeah, police in big cities are basically just there to act as a strike force when the rage of all the minimum wage workers boils over every few years. They don't even have a legal obligation to protect you in dangerous situations, so they truly don't have a purpose