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  • The circle remains unbroken: Police react with minimal investigation, numbers are logged. The insurance pays out and premiums are increased. There are ample thieves and buyers. The ports collect cargo fees, and many containers are unchecked when the vehicles are shipped away. The auto company makes and sells another vehicle. The politicians react. Some excuse the criminals and others excoriate the accused. They react and raise taxes.

    This is the effect of crumbling institutions not the cause of it, although it reinforces the feedback loop. Keep shrinking the state by putting more of its functions into entities only responsible to their major shareholders and watch it get worse. It's been the program since the modern resurgence of market fundamentalism (neoliberalism).

  • Elected officials must take decisive action. We need stronger deterrents, enhanced enforcement resources and a clear, co-ordinated strategy. Stop reacting, please. We need a response.

    Jessica doesn't know what we need. Jessica is scared and Wants Someone To Do Something. "Stronger deterrents" never work, have never worked, and we KNOW they won't work. We are already paying more for law enforcement than we can reasonably afford.

    I dunno, this is fishy.

  • The people stalking our neighbourhoods preying on people’s success

    Interesting phrase there. Whole piece was definitely overblown, but this kinda gives away the game.

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