PS And if someone had called the police, and if they may have imprisoned the person - given the realistic stats on the effects of imprisonment on first time non-violent offenders, would that REALLY have "cured" them? More likely that, worse case scenario, they'd leave with HIV, a drug habit and load of tips n'tricks for new crimes - best case, they'd come out to a life messed up and have to be a really "Billy Bootstraps" kind of person to make anything good out of it.