Part of the problem, I think anyway, is that there are no real consequences for crap like this. To me, it's kind of like the "broken windows" policy that Rudy used in NYC to get the crime rates down. The police, whom I sympathize with, are too busy with other, more serious, problems like drugs and gangs. Should be a shooting offense. If it were it would rarely, if ever, happen.
The police around here are too busy sitting on the side of the road getting their traffic ticket quota. While I do sympathize and support the police, there is a very clear difference in what gets responded to
Someone got SHOT at 2 houses down and I got the whole thing on camera, they didn't collect the footage and I later found out they never believed that anything happened...
If they brought back public hangings, crime would shrink down to nothing.
It leaves an image in your brain that comes up every time you think about breaking the law.
One problem is, the mentally ill, once the courts said that mentally ill is an excuse, which it is, we ended up with a lot more people that are mentally ill, LOL!
One problem is, the mentally ill, once the courts said that mentally ill is an excuse, which it is, we ended up with a lot more people that are mentally ill, LOL!