You know you’re living in a state of total lawlessness when criminals start pulling off heists that, under normal circumstances, they don’t even attempt. Think of the train robberies in the Wild West with Butch Cassidy, where they’d detach the rail car and dynamite the safe and so on. Brazen crimes like this only happen when law enforcement isn’t doing its job for one reason or another. Otherwise, the risk of getting caught is just too high, so the thieves don’t even try.
Post-BLM, there’s been a lot of coverage of crime rates increasing as police retreat and criminals become emboldened. But there hasn’t been much coverage of the dramatic increase in one specific kind of crime, which used to be relatively rare. I’m talking about the theft of catalytic converters. Stealing catalytic converters doesn’t take very long, but it’s highly conspicuous. Thieves typically…
