Punk skateboarder kids break into your office and steal your stapler, then go arround town stapling pictures of your mother with a mustache photoshopped onto her. Obviously this is not going to make your mother or her friends very happy. Since those kids don't go to school either, they'll never be flying a space ship or making any money worth mentioning.

The more ankle-biting wannabes you have running around, the higher your crime rate and the lower your income. The best way to get rid of these hoodlums is to shoot them dead. That's where a police station comes in handy. Build some of these bad boys and you'll have expired football players capping the leaders of tomorrow!

High crime is often caused by low wages, and since time and space are curved, also by unhappiness and low education.

The freedoms of Democracy can also increase crime, whereas as an Autocracy has efficient means of dealing with the punks.