But what a pedestrian, generic analysis that is. Based on that statement offenders are just there, and the only thing we can do is get ever bigger, more vigilan

But what a pedestrian, generic analysis that is. Based on that statement offenders are just there, and the only thing we can do is get ever bigger, more vigilant sticks since we are outside the situation and "it is what it is". Sounds like the manifesto of broken modern policing. Instead, places that work on social programs see crime drop, because even if people are capable, they are not offenders since they have received the intellectual, emotional, psychological, economic, etc assistance they needed. Obviously some people will remain offenders and police are necessary. But by now we should know better than this, and that type of statement should not be the linchpin of any criminology.