It isn't naive when practically every other Western country has far less homeless drug addicts and people in desperate poverty than the US. Unless I am naive an

It isn't naive when practically every other Western country has far less homeless drug addicts and people in desperate poverty than the US. Unless I am naive and the incentives to commit crimes like this do not come from poverty and the lack of opportunity. Cars in other countries have catalytic converters. Is this kind of crime as rampant there?