I spent the weekend (well, saturday) trying to get rid of an ant problem in the kitchen. They were coming up to the work-surfaces through cracks in the groutin

I spent the weekend (well, saturday) trying to get rid of an ant problem in the kitchen. They were coming up to the work-surfaces through cracks in the grouting. So I re-grouted the backsplash, and the joins in the worksurface etc. Of course, they started coming up through gaps in between the floor tiles, so I patched those. Then through the window sills. And I noticed they pushed out some of the new grout to make a couple of new runs. You will never completely stop this problem. And monitoring every. single. thing. is not the way to tackle it. Professionals need to target the source of the problem. Who is being abused? Why? Who are the abusers? Why? How and where are the two meeting? This is the work to traditional policing, improved social services and society in general, not mass-surveillance.