Considering how many people were, at one point or another, actively trying to kill the last Avatar when he was a child, I can't really condemn their overcaution. But the world was at war then, and we weren't when Korra was discovered.

[A faintly incredulous snort.] You're more generous than I was. She almost took out an entire city block on her first day trying to arrest a few grunts from the local triad. I thought she'd matured since then, but--

[--but then they were actually at war, and collateral damage stopped being nearly as much of an issue. She glances at Kyle.]

So what happened here?