Well the article I located is about how the high price of copper has led to many copper related robberies. If thieves can find copper wiring they will remove it from whatever it is connected to and take it to the nearest recycling depot and get money for it. In the state of Georgia thieves have stolen the copper wires for the flood lights that light up the football field for night practices. So instead of night practices now they have to have twice as many teams on a field so they can practice during the day light. I think that if you close down the places where you could get refunds for your copper then the thefts will stop. There is no point in stealing something that is not going to benefit you, and the thieves do not get money for what they stole then they will just move on to something else. Another way to curb this problem is to bust the people that are addicted to meth, which comprises of 90% of metal thieves. If police can bust more meth houses and therefore lowering the availability of meth then there will be less people doing the drug and less people being able to get hooked on it. I think this authors view is that he is sad for the people this crime effects. Such as the children that can’t play football or the farmers that get their irrigation pipes stolen. One good thing that has happened is that copper theft now carries a fine of the value of the copper plus the replacement cost which has turned the crime into a felony. However if someone really wants drugs then they are going to do whatever they physically can to get them and the penalty of getting caught is most likely not going to stop them. My question would be how to protect copper and make it less accessible to thieves?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/20/copper.theft/index.html
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