Merriam-Webster Word of the Year 2017

[loramin]

When the police don't come (or take hours to come) when there's a problem in your neighborhood you start settling it yourself, by force if necessary ... the exact same way native white people in medieval Europe used to settle things (they didn't have police either).

I imagine this makes immigrant/poor neighborhoods (there's a big overlap between the two) in any country more violent by nature, but it's hard to blame the immigrants for having crappier police protection than more affluent neighborhoods.

Also, immigrants tend to have seen some shit; you don't uproot your entire life and leave the only country you've ever known because things are going great, you leave because everyone around you is starving to death, the government is torturing/raping/murdering everyone, etc. That kind of psychic damage would make any person, anywhere, more violent. But if you have the empathy to say "hey people with shitty lives, why not come live with us where it's less shitty" you should have empathy to understand that people coming from those shitty lives will have a bit more mental shit to deal with.