This is at least tangentially related . . .
When I was a kid attending elementary school in Chicago, every now and then a Chicago cop would come to our school (they called it the "Officer Friendly" program) and go from classroom to classroom telling us about various legal issues.
One time he showed pictures of the many, many guns police had taken from bad guys. When he opened the floor to questions, I asked "You have thousands and thousands of guns securely locked up - HOW MANY OF THE BAD GUYS DO YOU STILL LOCKED UP JUST AS SECURELY?"
The cop admitted that most of the bad guys were no longer in jail.
So I followed up with a question "So your policy is to punish the inanimate objects and release the bad guys? If you're serious about crime fighting, don't you think you have things backwards?"
At that point, the teacher (a nun!!) stepped in and scolded me for asking hard questions.
Being a kid, I DID shut up . . . but the nun was a might irritated that I laughed at her scolding.