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The cost is passed to the consumer, so it's in everyone's best interest for this to be as rare as possible.


Only up to the point where it costs more to prevent than you save.


It only costs ~25 cents to stop a robbery.


You can’t get to 0 robberies by spending 25 cents * the number of robberies in the US.

You can cheaply discourage someone from robbing you and instead rob someone else. But 0 nationwide would be vastly more expensive.




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