He did this with a elaborate set up : when visiting a group of such policemen in Toulouse, one of his advisors asked them to talk about a rugby game they had played against kids from the 'hood ; a minor point, not the thing the cops wanted to put forward. When the policemen talked about it, as they had been told, Sarkozy ripped into them, saying it wasn't the police's job to play games with the youth, and went on to destroy the program.

Of course, the right wing governments keep on cutting the funds of the people whose job it is to play games with the youth and organise activities. Repression is much better than prevention for these politicians, as it happens after the crime, and thus allows to frighten people.

Yet another example being that it is getting harder to get parole, despite the fact that parole greatly reduces the risk of recidivism. Thankfully, such laws as "Three strikes and you're out" are unconstitutional in France, and the French justice system does partly cares about the felon's rights, meaning that the similar "peines planchers" law is resisted a bit.

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.