Eradication of vehicle theft

Car Theft more difficult

Measures bring brought into the law to protect owners of vehicles make it far more difficult to steal cars by hotwiring the ignition.

This protects new cars by making it much harder to start a car unless the actual key is used. This will mean that car theft will now have to include key theft. Immobilizers are like locks - they do not make theft impossible but more difficult.

So vehicle theft becomes a more personal crime. Instead of your car being quietly driven away, now your handbag will be stolen first. Is this kind of crime prevention actually therefore helpful? Or does it actually make matters worse by removing the element of balance that the Law (that assumes that people will try and get away with breaking it) invokes?

Measures that make it harder to infringe on the rights of others must be a good thing, but only if they work.