Locks are only for the honest. If you make the cost of enforcement higher than the benefit, the system ignores you. Once you figure this out you feel like an aristocrat among peasants.
Of course a properly run society shouldn't be this way, but that's how it is.
They do this in Ireland too but with native junkies as well as certain foreigners.
If you look presentable the inspectors and even police will accost you. If you look like you'll make their job difficult, they'll leave you alone.
This is true in all aspects of life.
Locks are only for the honest. If you make the cost of enforcement higher than the benefit, the system ignores you. Once you figure this out you feel like an aristocrat among peasants.
Of course a properly run society shouldn't be this way, but that's how it is.