This seems to be part of a general Zeitgeist of removing state enforcement of laws and leaving it to the citizens to police each other. In the pharmacy now the

This seems to be part of a general Zeitgeist of removing state enforcement of laws and leaving it to the citizens to police each other. In the pharmacy now there's plastic casing protecting almost everything - even toothpaste requires a bell and an assistant. Then there are now private security guards that didn't exist before. You can smoke or drink on the subway now and no one will stop you. You can certainly jump the turnstile and no one will stop you (not for a few years). You can rob someone with a threat of violence and you won't end up in jail, not at all. Again, citizens are expected to police each other. Or, if you're a victim of something it's your fault (and the on that committed the crime needs to be considered in light of inequality, or some other external circumstance). A bit of a tangent: "De-policing" doesn't actually de police, it just privatizes it, and feed inequality, because the rich will always afford private security (as they always had and will use more of). Back from the tangent: this is more of the same - normally the state goes around issuing parking tickets and even enforcing traffic laws. Normally. However no one seems to be doing either lately. Especially moving vehicles. Should the citizens be policing each other too? The suggestion in this thread to "smash car windows in" is part of that Zeitgeist I'm talking about. Anyone else looking to move to a rural area?