Chaos is something they understand because they are the perpetrators and therefore they feel they are at an advantage. They are then in control for what they see as their destiny. The breakdown in family values, the lowering of standards, by a growing number, to a code of conduct whereby they consider acceptable violence to be their only answer to get what they want. The threat to life and property and the economic demands of the drugs sub-culture are as great a threat as that posed by any hostile invading army. One is more highly visible and clear cut, that's all.
Identity cards are a sensitive issue.
Maybe that question could be asked of those afraid to leave their homes at night or even to go shopping. The homeless and lonely would at least not feel that they did not exist or count. If anything happened to them, someone would at least know who they were and hopefully care. Those who die of either natural causes or by their own hand and who remain unidentified, are denied that they ever existed. In a modern complex community there are even more laws to break and there are more sophisticated reasons given for doing so.