The RICO Act is criminally underutilized. Use these 300 street-level knuckleheads to take down the online fences that are orchestrating this whole racket.<p>eBay already looks like the mafia after that psychotic terrorism campaign against a blogger. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/investigation-ebay-employees-stalk-harass-couple-60-minutes-transcript-2023-03-26/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/investigation-ebay-employee...</a><p>Put their dons next door to El Chapo and these organized theft rings will be severely disrupted.
Long tail distribution is true with A LOT of different crime categories, no?<p>"A tiny number of drug-dealers commit thousands of NYC drug deals"<p>"A tiny number of vandals commit thousands of acts of NYC graffiti"<p>What is this article supposed to be telling us?
We need a better way to help these people live life without committing crimes.<p>My suggestion is a type of UBI that is immediate, fair, and would immediately be effective at easing some of the desperation these people must feel.<p>I propose a tower that drops money. $1 every minute. The price of such a tower in dollars would be just over a half a million dollars per year. It would serve as a tourist attraction, and a way for someone needing a few dollars to get them without begging, without stealing, without stigma. It would put dollars in people's pockets that would be spent at nearby businesses. I don't see a downside.<p>The town I live in, Pine Bluff Arkansas, has an organization called Go Forward Pine Bluff. They waste so much tax money it's unbelievable, and the things they do don't benefit the people.<p>I'm fighting them as hard as I can, and I hope to someday build a tower like that in this town.
Pareto principle. 80/20 law.<p>80% of x is caused by 20% of y.<p>.<p>80% of the sales come from 20% of the salespeople.<p>80% of the music played comes from 20% of the composers.<p>80% of the crime is commited by 20% of the people.<p>.<p>And not only that, out of those 20%, the 80/20 law still applies. of the 20% of the people who commit crimes, 80% of those crimes are commited by 20% of the people. And of those 20%, 80% of those are caused by 20% of them.<p>Same with wealth, music, whatever.<p>That's why, no matter what, most of the wealth will always be owned by a very small number of people. You can take all the money away from the wealthiest people, and in 50 years, the top 20% will own 80% of the wealth again. It will be a <i>different</i> 20%, but still, 20% will own 80% the wealth again.<p>It's also if you have a company with employees, 20% of the employees do 80% of the work. So you do NOT want to lose those 20% of the employees who do most of the work.
During the Wild West, those 327 people responsible for thousands of crimes in NYC would not have been allowed to continue operating. In the age of Bonnie and Clyde and Dillinger, repeat offenders (especially violent ones) were taken out of circulation one way or another. In the event of a societal collapse, these 327 would represent a predatory threat to other people and would have to be dealt with. I suspect that only in New York City could these 327 people continue as they have been doing. In certain states, they would already be out of circulation.
It is largely the people who are comfortable with the probability of getting caught but know that MOST stores have a policy to not engage with a shoplifter due to liability concerns.