Where's their 'civic pride'?

This is what the children's playground on El Paseo looked like last night. We were lucky not to have been struck by a football being smashed about by a bunch of pre-teens as we took the picture. Once upon a time, when Prospero was young, there used to be something called 'civic pride', which taught us to be proud and careful of the place where we lived. But in those days, there were policemen about...