LA suffering from a plague of theft of copper wiring, knocking out our street lights and requiring very expensive repairs.
As usual, because many of the members have a defective understanding of human nature, our city council is exploring every possible solution (solar, alarms, etc.) instead of the obvious one:
1. Recognizing that thefts like this are not random, but rather the work of a relatively small number of career criminals, and
2. Creating "honeypots", having police stake them out, arresting those career criminals, and jailing them for very long periods of time
(Very depressing that our political class seems to need to relearn lessons ~all civilized societies have known for literally thousands of years.)