If they don’t prosecute and incarcerate it is meaningless. You could have a cop every ten feet. What difference would it make?
Exactly.
Convicted Auto theft in California used to carry 1 to 10 years at San Quentin. What is it now?
One thing I failed to appreciate when I was younger about law enforcement - you’ll hear people say “there aren’t enough cops”. Well guess what? There will never be “enough” cops.
Once a critical mass of individuals is reached that are not going to “follow the law” it’s all over. The Genie does not get put back in the bottle. Every sane politician, including Demicrats used to understand this implicitly. The younger generations have been incubated with fairy dust and hopium and destructive and destabilizing ideologies.