He is an anarchist, he says, devoted to making the spaces we live in more interesting and less predictable. For a lot of like-minded, well-meaning people, that idea translates directly into a demand for less policing and more tolerance for deviance, as though grinding poverty, rampaging mental illness, drug-blasted leaners, and packs of reckless dirt-bike riders are merely neutral and harmless manifestations of a less uptight, less suburban, and less boring way of life.