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> Once you've found the thieves, the harder task is making them stop stealing bikes. Not hard at all if you make bike theft an automatic death sentence...
by warning26 6y ago
> Once you've found the thieves, the harder task is making them stop stealing bikes.
Not hard at all if you make bike theft an automatic death sentence...
- frosted-flakes 6y agoI know you're joking, but it actually is a hard problem. Desperate people do desperate things.
- 542354234235 6y agoIt turns out that improving the economic situation for people in an area leads to less crime. Weird how that works. Its almost like there is a whole class of crime that comes from real and perceived lack of opportunity.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoAnyone with the initiative to steal bikes or catalytic converters also has the initiative to do something productive. But everything else with an equally low bar to entry is much crappier. Stealing bikes and cats you get to be your own boss. Doing manual labor you have to show up on time, not do drugs on the job. Working for the gig economy crap you have to please some of the worst of the general public and a black box algorithm. Sure you can try run scrap, do odd jobs or part out cars but if you do either of those enough to make "stealing stuff" levels of money the government will be up your ass the same way they would be if you were stealing cats and bikes. These people aren't desperate. They're assessing their options for making a buck and it's no surprise that the "I don't car what other people think" subset chooses petty crime. They need better options for making a buck. Not stuff that alleviates the need to make a buck. Most people willing to incur the risks involved stealing stuff have enough initiative and work ethic they're not gonna sit at home and smoke pot all day if the government gives them a handout.