> The only lasting solution is targeting the roots that motivate/force people to steal in the first place, but this is obviously a more complicated and long ter

> The only lasting solution is targeting the roots that motivate/force people to steal in the first place, but this is obviously a more complicated and long term endavour, which depends on a political will that is currently nonexistent. I don't think we understand why some people turn to theft while others, in seemingly identical life situations, don't.