When I visited The Faroe Islands a year ago the best story my friend/guide told me was about The Criminal. And by that I mean they had One Criminal.
Sure they had more minor criminals who did a bit of stealing and stuff but the islands were such a tight knit community people didn’t really do crimes because the social cost of being caught were too big.
Except this one guy who had schizophrenia. People weren’t afraid of him because he had never hurt anyone before until one random day he shot a politician with a harpoon.
The politician survived and the man went to prison where he did his time and for years after that whenever important people would visit the islands the police didn’t waste money on following them around, instead they sent one police officer to hang out with the harpoon guy for the day.
Amazing.
