The police becoming &quot;as effective&quot; as organized crime at &quot;keeping publicly hyper-violent criminals in line&quot; is easy, traditional police are more effective and use similar methods - there&#x27;s a line you can&#x27;t cross.<p>David Simon describes both this phenomena and how the war on drugs tossed this approach [1].<p>That said, this hardly eliminates crime or makes it OK. Poverty and the turf wars over facilities for victimless crimes are always going to spur violent crime.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themarshallproject.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish#.LggeWyYFD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.themarshallproject.org&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;david-simon-on...</a>