It turns out you can curb any behavior you want if you engage in heavy policing with immediate, draconian punishments. El Salvador did this with gang members who had "I Am A Murderer" tattooed on their face and Britain does this with prople who say "We shouldn't let unlimited rapists into our country".
It turns out you can curb any behavior you want if you engage in heavy policing with immediate, draconian punishments.
You can only do it if you have the support of the population or if you have pacified the population. In El Salvador it's the first, in the UK it's the latter.
You could argue it is indeed a moral panic because there've been no consequences so far. In any sane society you would've expected riots to occur.
It turns out you can curb any behavior you want if you engage in heavy policing with immediate, draconian punishments. El Salvador did this with gang members who had "I Am A Murderer" tattooed on their face and Britain does this with prople who say "We shouldn't let unlimited rapists into our country".
You can only do it if you have the support of the population or if you have pacified the population. In El Salvador it's the first, in the UK it's the latter.