Rural territory is policed more easily than dense urban ground

Evidence

This war with neither soul nor songs, which had never created a popular mentality, which in each man discreetly murmured I and never we, imprisoning only the private universe, disoriented the country infinitely less than the city, for here it did not function contrary to the mind’s habits: the egoistic, short-run calculation, and the resigned, somewhat magical frequentation of a future evasive by nature. — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 274 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Territorial ties to fences and shelter make mobile criminals controllable and protectable.; Rural life absorbs a directionless war better than urban life does — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 274; Modern policing emerged only in the mid-nineteenth century to handle dense populations

Related

• Rural life absorbs a directionless war better than urban life does (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Rural life absorbs a directionless war better than urban life does #corroborates (0.82) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 274
• Modern policing emerged only in the mid-nineteenth century to handle dense populations #corroborates (0.75)