Reply #2: Excellent!

[Jokerman]

This statement hits the nail on the head:

"For them, apparently devoid of any emotional intelligence, the concern is more for how to rid the downtown of Christopher’s presence, lest he undermines its revitalization, rather than understand what caused him to end up there in the first place."

Same reaction to crime, we remove the criminal from society but do nothing about the society that created the criminal.