Precious little sympathy for the elderly afraid to leave their homes, for the women who have to take buses late at night, for neighbors who have had their few prized possessions stolen, for children left to fend for themselves for days on end.

I would think it pretty certain that an idea like this can be expected to make all those things worse. Are they planning to carry out serious research to monitor the outcome so that they can slam this into reverse very quickly, if I am right? I very much doubt it, that's not the way populist politics tends to work in nay country.