I would my home country of Romania to your example. Life was miserable through 80s but there hardly any visible crime. Certainly no shoplifting and no vagabonds

I would my home country of Romania to your example. Life was miserable through 80s but there hardly any visible crime. Certainly no shoplifting and no vagabonds. We used to have a saying "te bate ca la militie" to describe the consequences of being hauled to the local police (back then called militia) station for "questioning".