The Vandals, for instance, captured Carthage in 439 and used it as a base from which they launched their pirate ships to loot and burn the coastal towns.
You become an enforcer of the laws of this school, because today's litterer and jaywalker is tomorrow's window breaker and graffiti vandal, and it's our job to stop it.
He walked across the parking area and strolled back and forth along all the garages to make sure none of them had been burgled in the night or set on fire by gangs of vandals.
So I think what it comes down to is the fact that it kind of goes back to Detective Walsh's train of thinking that the mausoleum was not desecrated by vandals on purpose, but it was done to stage a desecration.