California is notorious for having some gang issues. In oder to deal with this problem, the California police department decided to create, along with public support, California's Top 10 Most Wanted Gang members. Sounds like a good idea right? Not exactly- we're about to see some untended consequences. Well California's gangbangers now had an incentive to even create more harm than before...in order to make it on the list, thus validating their street credit. After the list was released, violent crimes increased as more gang members tried to make their way onto the list. Now was this the police departments' intent? I doubt it. But this example does highlight the dangers of unintended consequences.
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