I've seen a mugging in Brazil. They are so frequent there that everyone I talked to has been mugged on the street. Friends of mine have been carjacked and kidnapped for 8 hours.
The police won't investigate a mugging. You're wasting your time to report it.
Let's not "accept" crimes that we think are not serious. All crime needs to be investigated and appropriate punishment given. Living in a society where some crime is OK is not a great place to live.
And I say over and over, it is time to evaluate the true cost of crime.
Society should accept a little crime to be free != evaluate the true cost of crime.
So if there's a neighborhood that has the potential to sell Condos for $1.7M each but currently has houses that are $50k and we find out that the crime in the area is keeping that value so low - should we go after the thieves for stealing $1.7M from homeowners?
I'm just saying because that's one of the ways you add up the "true cost of crime".
I would rather someone speed through my neighborhood than have 3 police cars make a spectacle and spend thousands of dollars.
Speeding is a problem fixed by a proper education (in theory) It is not fixed by chasing someone down and giving them a speeding ticket.
If we provide avenues for people to provide for themselves, crime will drop, and we avoid all of the chilling side effects of total surveillance.