Lowering your expectations for low-income households and treating people that come from them as if they&#x27;re too stupid and&#x2F;or broken to not commit crimes is wrong is offensive.  There&#x27;s a difference between acknowledging the value free education, cheap housing, and money for food and outright turning a blind eye to opportunists and criminals.<p>&gt;If you&#x27;re a druggie and need money for a fix.<p>How is that your or my problem?  You get yourself addicted to drugs.  If someone mugs my girlfriend and trades her phone for some heroin, I don&#x27;t understand why I&#x27;m supposed to shrug it off, feel sympathy for the criminal, and let that junkie make someone else live in fear so they can get high.<p>&gt;there a forces that prod some people towards classes of crimes. That goes the other way too, for example considering tax evasion.<p>Muggings, rapes, and violent crime have drastically different effects on people than the taxman putting a lower number in a ledger.  Trying to conflate crimes that happen to a person with financial loopholes is apologetics for violent criminals.<p>&gt;Or say you&#x27;re in the country illegally.<p>Then don&#x27;t come to the country illegally if you&#x27;re going to do destructive things against the people that you want to help you.