Do new laws have any effect?

September rolled into town over the weekend. Like a new sheriff with a shiny badge riding a horse named Guilt, the first month of fall brought 820 laws into the system. Brand spanking new, we should be safer with these decrees. Of course, they must be applied and those who breach them must be held accountable. America already has plenty of look-the-other-way cities who harbor violators of the law…