Crime Is Not Bad – Amygdala Deficiency

San Francisco responds to a crime wave:

San Francisco, America’s boom town, is flooded with the cash of well-paid technology workers and record numbers of tourists. At the same time, the city has seen a sharp jump in property crime, up more than 60 percent since 2010, though the actual increase may be higher because many of the crimes go unreported…

The city, known for a political tradition of empathy for the downtrodden, is now divided over whether to respond with more muscular law enforcement or stick to its forgiving attitudes…

Scott Wiener, a supervisor and an advocate for more aggressive law enforcement, said his constituents were urging him to act. “I can’t tell you the number of times where I have received emails from moms saying, ‘My kids just asked me why that man has a syringe sticking out of his arm,’ ” he said… “I’m not advocating extreme law and order, but there has to be consequences. Sometimes people might need to spend six months in jail to think about what they did…”

On the other side is David Campos, a supervisor who opposes the increase in police officers and describes Mr. Wiener’s views as “a very knee-jerk kind of punitive approach that is ineffective and inconsistent with the values of San Francisco… We are not going to criminalize people for being poor,” he said. “That criminalization is only going to make it harder for them to get out of poverty…”

“I don’t know which San Francisco will prevail,” he said.

At TLC Glass, a repair shop on the edge of San Francisco’s business district, the more prosaic consequences of the rise in car break-ins are on display. Customers regularly file in to repair car windows that have been smashed by thieves…

A customer who came to have a broken window fixed, Dan Edmonds-Waters, showed San Franciscan forgiveness. He said he felt sorry for whoever broke a window of his limited-edition BMW twice, stealing his gym bag both times.

“I have a lot of sympathy for folks who are in need in the city,” Mr. Edmonds-Waters said. “This has become an extremely expensive city to live in. The divide between those who have and those who don’t is ridiculously ginormous.”

Notice all of the r/K themes. The rabbits can’t perceive that this might be a threat. They have enough resources they don’t care. The one idiot has his gym bag stolen out of his car, he buys another, and leaves it in his car again, to be stolen all over again. His amygdala is so deadened, after the first bag is stolen, it fails to drive him to take the second bag inside with him.

If resources snapped shut, and a stolen gym bag left would be gone forever never to be replaced, that would alter the mindset of these people. If they encountered a terrifying crime event personally, it would lay a pathway in the amygdala which would drive them to eradicate this threat. But so long as that doesn’t happen, they tool along blissfully unaware.

Absent that, the cycle is incomplete. So now they must progress first to bedlam and terror, before K returns and motivates a return to the peace and safety which will allow rabbitry to thrive again.