This is how neo-liberals exploit the lumpen-proles, or the underclass.

They create the conditions that make crime inevitable, like taking the homelesses sleeping bags when it can go -20 degrees and they will freeze to death. People dont just give up and die in these situations, they commit crime.

It gives them a moral panic to 'be tough on'

Reganism 101 really, create a class of 'savages' and provide the solution.