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Not hastily-phrased, but thanks for the bailout opportunity. I risked the flaming to discuss the bigger issue of how conservatives should handle lesser crimes within their neighborhoods.

Biblically, my understanding of this or any matter that involves wrong-doing in my community can be found in Matthew 18:15-18.

¹⁵"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. ¹⁶But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'¹⁷If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector. ¹⁸"I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.