On Tuesday, February 12, District 7’s Bob Kettle presented his “6 Pillars addressing the Permissive Environment.” These were, according to his reasoning, “the underlying factors behind crime tied to the lack of deterring structures that allow people to endanger themselves and our city.” The first concerned “police staffing”; the second: “legal tools”; the third: “closing unsecured buildings”; the fourth: “graffiti remediation”; the fifth: “public health”; and, last but not least: “collaboration with the county and state.” Considered as a whole, the pillars said something that even a child in preschool could understand: If we use a bigger stick and hit all the harder, bad people will stop being bad. And that’s about it. That’s the extent of Kettle’s wisdom if you remove the adult-sounding words “permissive environment.” Pain really hurts.