It's also a timing issue. I think a lot of people that are currently in the "just get rid of them" camp would have been in the "let's help them rehabilitate" camp when the problem was in small or controlled scale.

But we are way passed that. It's a downright epidemic and needs to be dealt with in more drastic and immediate terms for some of us. I'm not going to wait 5 years while my children are innocent and in school and wandering around for the problem to get better. I want my neighborhood safe and clean and innocent for them now. This is why suburbs popped up on some level. People just want to be left alone and in relative calm and clean surroundings.