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The corollary of "the police aren't coming" is "the police aren't coming."
Criminals haven't thought this all the way through.
Citizens in Italy, apparently, are ahead of the curve and vigilantism is getting a resurgence.
Fun fact! Did you know the organizations we know as the mafia originate from vigilance societies?
So far the Italian police have been as ineffective in stopping vigilantes as they've been at stopping crime.
Vigilante is what you get when the government abdicates it's side of the criminal justice agreement.
There's solid reasons to have a neutral, not directly involved in the crime, party do the arresting and trials.
Not least of which vigilantes mete out "justice" when their blood is up and they have a tendency to snag the wrong person for lynching.
But it's not as big a percentage of those punished as you'd think.
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