Boroughs could never to stop this. Boroughs did not buy his own helicopters and fly around spending his own money on personnell, bullets, communications, training etc.
Sociologists, economists, criminologists and other academics give politicians reports on the socio-economic patterns of "criminals".The politicians give police a budget, the brass sets budget targets. No $$$ for sustained raids? Increase in administrative salaries? Oh Well!
Crown attorneys, legislators, and "leaders" amend laws and advise police on the feasibility of certain outcomes. Political agendas constrain and/or push police actions.
Boroughs was no lone wolf hero....plenty people help him.
The crime siutation will be solved eventually, maybe tommorow. Question is, how, at what rate, and at what cost.
Do we wait for the fruit of oppression and neglect to cast off their demons and willingly join the modern world, or do we reinforce the nation state's monoply on violence say get the hell in or stay out and face the consequences? After all, civil rights are a gift from the powered to the powerless.
The same patterns of social transformation can be found all over the globe. So if Boroughs was alive today he would be a frustrated man, but he would be a powerless man. Slammin one individual man balls in between a desk draw to make them talk "who is de ace" is like a grain of sand standing against a tidal wave, not to mention invite swift retribution by the "victim" in the courts.
