If by "battle" you mean one-sided murder attack, and "good track record" you mean "including killing tens of kids in weddings and such".
As a rule I hate purely technical/financial solution that helps someone to isolate himself from a social problem and not solving it.
I'm totally there with you on this.
We cannot solve social problems by just piling technology on them.
Just an an example (OT), it's like the thing with the right to privacy: no, cryptography ain't gonna solve the issue.
For one, they could outlaw the use of cryptography and force you to provide a passkey or be jailed. Second, that might work for a tech savvy person communicating with another tech savvy person -- if he's paranoid all the time.
What about when his non tech-savvy friend mentions his secret on a plain text email to another friend? And what about the culture of hiding, instead of a proud culture of "this is not the fucking government's business" that this creates?
One of my favorite examples: http://5ptz.com/
If you're able to see it in NYC this summer, I highly recommend it - there are rumors that the owner is tearing it down to build residential high-rises.
http://www.dw.de/de-maizieres-euro-hawk-problems-drone-on/a-...
My opinion - the only proper way to deal with this is to commission some street art on the walls and cars themselves.
In a few places where the artists have been officially sanctioned it worked acceptably.