> unhelpfully reductive I can see an argument for this in any particular case. But then I think about the makeup of the US prison population and realize that I

> unhelpfully reductive I can see an argument for this in any particular case. But then I think about the makeup of the US prison population and realize that I'm correct. You only go to jail for certain crimes in this country (not that I think we need to increase our prison population). You don't get peppered sprayed, tasered or shot for environmental crimes. Protesting environmental crimes? Absolutely! > Just like with the soviet destruction of Aral sea to produce cash crops, in turn sacrificing 14% of its fish stock, it's usually short sight political decisions. I would agree that short-sighted political decisions maintain the lack of enforcement of certain crimes. "Broken windows" justice is waaay easier. But the article and my comments were about the US, where capital rules. And you have to take the history of the justice system into account, and in the US you find it's intertwined with the plantation system, slavery, destroying labor unions, "protecting" against Native Americans and, more recently, the Post WWII corporate boom (contributing to corporate power). I'm not familiar enough Soviet history to say if any of this is relevant to your example.