I see where you&#x27;re coming from. But you have to keep in mind that there a myriad of offences that you&#x27;re not susceptible to commit if your living standard is above a certain threshold.<p>Say, loitering, because maybe you have no home or a crowded one, so it&#x27;s better to spend more time of the day on the street. Or petty theft, for people who&#x27;re really poor. If you&#x27;re a druggie and need money for a fix. Or say you&#x27;re in the country illegally.<p>And I am sure we could come up with more. The point is none of these behaviors (well, except loitering, I don&#x27;t get why that should be criminalized) are desirable for society as a whole, but it&#x27;s not correct to pretend that the laws applies to all citizens equally, when there a forces that prod some people towards classes of crimes. That goes the other way too, for example considering tax evasion.<p>The question becomes then how to we manage these behaviors, and I&#x27;m not sure that an increased pressure by the state to enforce existing laws on a vulnerable population, actually solves anything.<p>Yeah you might have some moral ideas about whether &quot;getting yourself hooked on drugs&quot; is a good idea, from a policy standpoint that&#x27;s irrelevant, what matters is to manage the fallout that this has on society right now and how to deal with it in the future.