The difficulty of law enforcement has in part due to increasing detachment of the enforcers of the law from the public to whom they respond. The legislators, judges, prosecutors, law-enforcement, and the intervening bureaucrats have little to no personal interest in the policing issues of any given local area. The universalization of law enforcement will inevitably be ineffective, given the heterogenous nature of US local communities.

Centralized micromanagement of locality results in poor efficiency and misguided policies. Unfortunately, the economic realities of centralized and concentrated financial avenues render locality impotent to enforce their political will, even were they allowed to exert their political will in conflict with the central policy preferences. This results in increasing reliance on legislation and regulation to achieve stability at the cost of expanding bureaucracy and commensurate expenses.