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bizzletktoday at 5:32 AM0 repliesview on HN

Not all bad behavior meets the threshold of police intervention.

Here's a nearly-strawman-but-definitionally-valid example: a landlord may want to remove a tenant who's being unusually hard on the place and accelerating the wear-and-tear. Could be serious enough that paying the tenant to go away would be cheaper than the cost to remediate the damage accrued over the length of the contract.