stoopid
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Drugs and poverty are the largest contributors to the behavior, only a small percent do it 'for fun' (kleptos).
When you look at crime maps, most of it is focused in areas where there's the greatest poverty/lowest income or established 'hot spots' (the strip, here in Vegas, for example) and done by people in poverty/low income. White collar criminals with six or seven figures in their bank accounts aren't the ones smashing windows. I suspect our widening wealth gap between those with the least and most is an area that, if improved upon, would take a significant bite out of the amount of (in particular poverty motivated) theft.
All that said, when taken as a percent of the population and when looking at demographics, the crime rate isn't anything resembling the third world. We're nowhere near a breaking point. Certainly on a long enough timeline we can get there, but I suspect we'll have bigger political, social, and economic issues to address before white people in suburbia have to worry that their neighborhoods resemble an inner city. And lets face it, most reading these words aren't poor living in a rundown studio apartment wondering where their next meal or fix is coming from. Any fears and concerns we have are self imposed/induced. When getting a broken window is the worse crime we experience, it's certainly the definition of first world issue.
As far as deadly force - the punishment has to fit the crime, or else it becomes a crime itself. Breaking a window isn't a death sentence. This isn't North Korea.
