As we all know here, material conditions have progressively been getting worse and worse. Based on pretty much all political theory, crime rates should also be going up with worse material conditions. But they haven’t, in fact, crime rates have been going consistently down for the past 30 or so years. Why is that?
I think the explosion of surveillance probably has dampened things, like, it’s a lot easier to break in to places and do a robbery or whatever if there’s not 1000 cameras everywhere