In Europe it's very common to have trains stopped (for hours and for the entire community) because robbers stole copper cables. One technical answer to make theft less juicy is to (sadly slowly) replace the copper cables with similar cables but using 1/10th the amount of copper. Another "answer" is a spray, with a chemical compound that has a very specific signature and that's incredibly hard to remove: so the robbers, once caught, cannot deny that they were on scene committing the act: it's not perfect but it makes some of the thieves think twice.
If drug addicts stealing bronze from military graves to pawn isn’t the sign of a decaying country, what is?
I’m legit shocked at how far the US has fallen these past 2 decades.
> “It surprises me that the federal government has not gotten involved”
Another bullshit narrative from the party of small government giving big government a plausible excuse to overreach, even more.