This is the root cause honestly. I largely don't see any change outside DC's borders. If you don't enforce the law then lots of people are not going to follow the rules.

But is society breaking down. Not even close yet. People will start to vote to fix this stuff well before that it, posts like these are the start of public opinion shifting enough to demand political action in favor of law and order. Things will have to get much worse first though as the leadership in DC is phobic of the people being punished being minorities at a higher rate than the population demographics. For a number of reasons that will be the outcome when enforcement is ramped back up.