I believe it was.
Well that could be. And if so, I suppose your point could be reasoned.
What happens if these people are held in local jails and lose their jobs? They lose the farm, the families are split to the far corners of the region, thirty charges are bought, and one or two people are convicted of anything on a count or two each?
Is the utter destruction of this community going to be justified?
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. Perhaps much more criminality would be found, than I suspect.