Legalize the Mafia.
Have people in the neighborhood pay Protection money.
Let the Mafia handle the criminals.
There won’t be any crime.
Not joking.
Or, to cut out the middle man (the Mafia) just get rid of the police and tell citizens in the neighborhood that they can respond to crime as they wish. No charges will be forthcoming.
There won’t be any crime.
I see this as “an unstoppable force” moving toward “an immovable object”. Can you stop the unstoppable? Can you move the immovable? People will say “you can’t do that”. But the plain fact is “you have to”. You have to do the thing which is unthinkable. Unless, of course, someone has a better idea. And I sure hope that the “better idea” isn’t just “hire more officers”. Because that would be a sad joke.
I am thinking the same as you. Bring back the mafia with a code of the old mafia. It will fix crap in 12-18 months. The politicians can’t grandstand about cleaning up the crime if they make a deal with the necessary evil.