Menachem, a cohesive homogenous community has yeshivos, shuls, and a functioning beis din. We’re not talking about boro park whch6has dozens of kehilos. In CH, it’s all chabad.
When that infrastructure crumbles, it’s a sign of deterioration from the top down.
Sechel – i said “you know it” because i guarantee you’d treat someone differently if they told you that they just murdered someone than if the person admitted to stumbling in lashon hora.
And if you wouldn’t….they have medication for that.