Someone once linked the level of public security to the level of education.
These people believed that if a person was highly educated and had a firm understanding of right and wrong, they would not make mistakes.
Therefore, raising educational standards could greatly reduce the crime rate in society.
This view was popular for a while, but gradually died out.
Later sociologists proved through more precise data and facts that highly educated people could commit crimes just as readily—premeditated crimes, at that.
It was important to emphasize the term "premeditated." This meant the crime was not committed in the heat of the moment, nor was it a crime committed after a sudden loss of emotional control.
It was a crime carried out calmly, only after careful consideration.
Such crimes, and such criminals, posed a greater threat to society, because they thought things through beforehand and knew how to accumulate experience. As a result, some criminals still had not been caught to this day.
In subsequent social studies, people gradually discovered that the crime rate actually had a direct relationship with the employment rate.
When employment was high, the crime rate in society tended to decline.
But once unemployment rose, the crime rate began to rise at the same time.
Employment, in fact, represented a person's ability to earn an income and their actual income situation.
When people had no income and no way to cope with the urgent demands of life caused by that lack of income, crime might become one of the paths they chose.
That was exactly what was happening in the Lehrmar Republic.
When people could not buy anything with money, when the money they had once needed months to save could not even buy a loaf of bread, what else could they do? Some people might