Ven on Kitten

Well, to me, the issue is that the statement was simply wrong. I also don’t think there’s anything like a reason worthy of going all Straussian on it. The truth is that we don’t have that many police in cities relative to the amount of crime and basically no prosecutors relative to it. It’s not surprising that we decline to do something about bike thieves and shoplifters when the raw manpower necessary doesn’t exist. And, like, you should have been more pointed on SL (I forget what that stands for) whining about Gladwell. Broken windows theory is wrong because it’s not the evidence of crime which makes people do more crime, it’s that there’s no evidence of getting caught. The big problem isn’t that some punk kid broke out the window of an abandoned factory, it’s that there weren’t any consequences *at all*. Not just that once, but literally every time. People see that and either indulge their worse angels or they subtly shift their views on morality.