If I could only so "scare" the mice away from my house. Traps are a continual expense, bother to set and a pain to clean up.
Look ... the saying is "wasn't doesn't kill me, makes me stronger" (I have many reservations about that wisdom -- but it has some value, and many take it very seriously). Even after a good investiagtion and prosecution, the bad guys may go free, or some of them avoid any official notice. They find that "empowering" and it brings them allies -- weak-moralled, low ethics, weak-minded hangers on who tag along to the "powerful" or wealthy.
A FEAR, however, is near always found greater than the reality -- Hooray for the Mayor's Wife!