Broken households and lack of sanctity for human life, lack of eq and poor conflict resolution skills. There are a lot of ppl who live in poverty especially in DC (i grew up there NE) and yet somehow the overwhelming majority of us who go through the same shyt (under employment, lack of employment, urban food insecurity etc...) don't resort to this due to lack of resources but there is a few who are hell bent on terrorizing the rest of us with fukking dracos as if the US is Yemen, Afghanistan or any other TRULY war conflict nation where ppl live in complete hopelessness.
The city had many resources growing up in terms of job corps and other avenues to make an earning and produce productive young ppl.
The crazy part is dollar for dollar, dc youth have more funds and opportunities than any other “inner city” kids in the county. The large majority of them just waste the opportunities