Well, to start with, what givesyou the idea that these people are "bad people" rather than good people trapped in bad mental and economic factors which they should have controlled but couldn't see how to? Good people confused, if you will, do as much harm as these so-valled "bad people" which you like to assume are all over your town.

If they are really dedicated to badness, the answer is, of course, to put more pressure on them than their local insanities are exerting. This can be accomplished by control, by scaring the bejeezus out of them, or by physical force. These remedies are effective -- long term -- in the order listed.

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