Editing Perverse incentive (section)

=== Community safety and harm reduction ===

* In 2002, British officials tasked with suppressing [[opium production in Afghanistan]] offered [[poppy]] farmers $700 an acre in return for destroying their crop. This ignited a poppy-growing frenzy among Afghan farmers, who sought to plant as many poppies as they could in order to collect payouts from the cash-for-poppies program. Some farmers harvested and sold the sap before destroying the plants, receiving significantly more money for the same amount of poppies.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Whitlock |first1=Craig |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbYYEAAAQBAJ&q=editions:Wo0s0FwTubkC |title=The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War |publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]] |year=2021 |isbn=978-1982159023 |page=136}}</ref>
* [[Gun buyback]] programs are carried out by governments to reduce the number of guns in circulation, by purchasing firearms from citizens at a flat rate (and then destroying them). Some residents of areas with gun buyback programs have [[3D printing|3D printed]] large numbers of crude parts that met the minimum legal definition of a firearm, for the purpose of immediately turning them in for the cash payout.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rose |first=Janus |date=2 August 2022 |title=Someone Made $3,000 Selling 3D-Printed Guns at a Gun Buyback Event |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/someone-made-dollar3000-selling-3d-printed-guns-at-a-gun-buyback-event/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802154455/https://www.vice.com/en/article/akee4e/someone-made-dollar3000-selling-3d-printed-guns-at-a-gun-buyback-event |archive-date=2 August 2022 |work=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=11 October 2022 |title=Participant used a 3D printer to make firearm parts in bulk that he then exchanged for gift cards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/new-york-gun-buyback-rules-3d-printed-parts |work=[[The Guardian]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref>
* In 2021, the [[United States Congress|US Congress]] enacted stringent requirements to prevent [[sesame]], a potential [[allergen]], from cross-contaminating other foods. Many companies found it simpler and less expensive to instead modify their recipes and add sesame directly to the other foods as an ingredient, and thus avoid being affected by the law.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Aleccia |first=Jonel |date=21 December 2022 |title=New label law has unintended effect: Sesame in more foods |url=https://apnews.com/article/sesame-allergies-label-b28f8eb3dc846f2a19d87b03440848f1 |work=[[Associated Press News]]}}</ref>
* In [[Alberta]], under the ''Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act'', every person must report suspected [[child abuse]] to a director or police officer, and failure to do so is punishable by a $10,000 fine plus 6 months of imprisonment.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-04-01 |title=RSA 2000, c C-12 {{!}} Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act |url=https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/laws/stat/rsa-2000-c-c-12/latest/rsa-2000-c-c-12.html |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=CanLII}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnston |first=Janice |date=2019-10-30 |title=Serenity's Law receives royal assent |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/serenity-law-bill-202-1.5340523 |access-date=2024-03-14 |work=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> However, according to criminal law professor Narayan, enforcing it would cause people to overreport, which wastes resources, and it would also create a [[chilling effect]] that prevents people from reporting child abuse observed over a period of time, as that would incriminate them for failing to report earlier.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Graveland |first=Bill |date=2017-10-01 |title=Alberta urged to enforce law on child abuse reporting |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/child-abuse-alberta-law-reporting-1.4315632 |access-date=2024-03-14 |work=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> There are similar laws in other Canadian provinces.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rimer |date=2019-04-10 |title=Information Sheet #7 Summary of Legal Requirements for Reporting Suspicions of Child Abuse  |url=https://boostforkids.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Summary-of-Legal-Requirements-for-Reporting-Suspicions-of-Child-Abuse_All.pdf |access-date=2024-03-14}}</ref>