Nah. Just more thieves than there are people who are allowed to hunt them, mainly because when they’re caught there is essentially no real penalty.
Not that I’m advocating lynchings or amputation or any of that nonsense... But really, if you don’t care what your criminal record looks like, there doesn’t seem to be much disincentive for stealing crap.
There’s no catch limit. LOL. It’s economics.
Nobody would pay for that many cops.
Just enough cops and an illusion the majority of thrives are caught, is fine for most folks... as long as insurance rates don’t go above some percentage where it’s too much to pay as a ratio to net income.
Technically the same thing with taxes to buy people to enforce. It’s all about average incomes.
Tiny super rich resident municipalities have a much higher cop to citizen ratio and those cops have way more toys.
Which is why the neighborhood not far from my old city normal house — that had average house prices of roughly $3M back during the 2008 housing crisis, $5M now — had a PD that used det cord to blow the entire back of a guy’s house off (multiple door sized holes) for a Walmart shoplifter.
Guy was then told he couldn’t rebuild exactly as it was — because it wouldn’t meet code.
Took something like seven years and he sued everybody, the city, the county... all to no avail. No judge would hold anybody accountable for blowing his house up to “catch a bad guy”.
There’s downsides to living in the mansions! Ha.
Or giving the cops a budget for all the explosives they ever wanted! LOL.
That municipality still has an enormous police force per capita, a SWAT team that’s one of the largest in the metro, and all shiny new equipment at all times.
Locals know to never ever speed inside their tiny jurisdiction. Huge money maker. They set most speed limits on four lane roads at 25. Something for that massive force to do.
It’s size? 8 square miles.
It’s all about the Benjamins.
Always is.
I’m sure a car stolen in that neighborhood gets a pair of detectives hunting for it.
