A lack of trust in one' s neighbors leads to their lack of respect for the law. A new study provides compelling evidence for this. Neighborhoods in which people routinely lock their doors have higher burglary rates than neighborhoods in which people do not routinely lock their doors. The reasoning in the argument is flawed in that the argument ['bases its conclusion on data that are contradictory', 'asserts in a premise what it is trying to establish in its conclusion', 'treats what could be the effect of something as if it were the cause of that thing', 'treats something that is merely sufficient to produce a result as if it were necessary to produce that result']