Class issue

According to policeman David Copperfield, cannabis was reclassified the first time because it was too much effort for the police to deal with it.

'Couldn't the same reasoning be extended to domestic burglary?' argues PC Copperfield. 'The theory is that it enables the police to concentrate on more serious crime. It doesn't. It simply sends out the signal that when a law is too difficult to enforce, we won't bother.'