I live in Manhattan about half-time.  Laws are a joke.  Rich people and cops can do whatever they want to poor people.  They kill and rape and steal.  The poor people are disarmed.  There is a law in the U.S., a foundational law, referred to as the right to keep and bear arms.  Does not exist.  If you are poor, you are defenseless.  If you are rich, you have goons.  Only thugs working for the rich are armed.

Now, for middle-class people, interacting with other middle-class people, the rules are mostly observed.  And in fact, that's still a fair number of people in Manhattan.  In the rest of the U.S., outside of say DC and SF, the middle class is pretty much disappearing.  Consequently the very limited domain in which the rules are observed is a rapidly shrinking one.