It's impossible to tell if you are making this statement seriously or sarcastically.

I hope this is a joke. It must me.

It might be a reference to the book little brother.

Most of the problem children in Portland are well known to LEOs and their private-army counterparts.

There's simply no point in taking a methhead to court for either breaking into your car or stealing it.

I understand the joke, but to pedantically respond for everyone's education, the issue (at least in Portland, the hometown I emigrated from), is nothing but political will to effect change (humorously, given the local attachment to the Obama-era H&C paradigm).

I've said for years and will continue to reiterate, that things will have to get much worse over there before anything gets any better.