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My take is that we've already tried incarcerating as many people as we can and it hasn't worked. Rather than wait for a crime to occur, I think we should try understanding why crime occurs and try to address it before the crime occurs.Which of course leads us back to the question, what do you think drives bad people to be bad people? If we don't understand that, we'll never make any progress We did incarcerate too many people but at least the decent people were safe. Now everyone is in danger from the predators released hours after crimes to repeat. Perhaps we should begin to teach the role of consequences for bad acts and help people acquire basic reading and math skills so they can function in society.
We did incarcerate too many people but at least the decent people were safe. Now everyone is in danger from the predators released hours after crimes to repeat. Perhaps we should begin to teach the role of consequences for bad acts and help people acquire basic reading and math skills so they can function in society.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
let me get this straight-"we did incarcerate TOO MANY PEOPLE, but at least decent people were safe" so which way do you want it? keep decent people safe? or stop incarcerating people? or just incarcerate a few people? how about if we start with incarcerating people who cannot behave in society? people who are dangerous to decent people. if that means building more prisons..build them. this guy was just let out of prison...early...despite many saying he has a disregard for life and will probably kill someone...well, they got it partly right...he killed 6 peoplehttps://abc7news.com/mass-shooting-sacramento-suspects-smiley-martin-prison/11714728/
Got any data to back up your assertion that decent people used to be safe?
1. Watch your friendly fire2. To answer your poorly targeted question, I would like truly violent offenders to be incarcerated. I would like a massive decrease in the amount of non violent offenders who are incarcerated coupled with a focus on rehabilitation and primary prevention.3. You still haven't answered my question, what do you think drives bad people to be bad people?
tamu, that's a very complicated question; one that would be very difficult to answer here. people have written books on that subject for chriminey sakes. and i'm not so naive to step into that one here. but i'm all ears man
He’s just a dentist, not a politician. Der.
ok zero for brains, what's the solution? how about you and tamu tell us how you would do it?
if you can refer to safety as NOT having ones cat taken from them forcefully, then yes, decent people USED to be safer
Two words: Penal Colonies.
Plenty of data showing how the current crime numbers have soared since no bail policies. pick the city
The problem is rocket we are incarcerating too many people who don't pose much of a safety risk to society OR who haven't been convicted for anything.Here is a breakdown:https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.htmlIf we kept the truly violent people in prisons, but found ways to rehabilitate those who aren't really much of a safety risk, we would be much better off as a society. Just locking people up because they break laws, without determining societal harm, is wasteful and inhumane.
We've been through this already. You're wrong."We found four states, as well as nine cities and counties, where there is existing data on public safety from before and after the adoption of pretrial reforms. All but one of these jurisdictions saw decreases or negligible increases in crime after implementing reforms. The one exception is New York State, where the reform law existed for just a few months before it was largely rolled back."https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/11/17/pretrial-releases/
TAMU just this morning on network news crime in NYC up 44% Same type of data has been reported for many cities. Sacramento shooter was early release despite DA saying he was capable of more violence once released. I agree with you that SOME people were locked up unfairly but the pendulum has swung to an extreme and law abiding citizens are being preyed upon.
bottom line is whatever we are doing today is not working.
either we have the wrong people in prison or we don't have enough people in prison because crime is out of control in many areas.
If bad behavior is not punished, you WILL get more ofit. if the crime is not addressed, it will be deemed acceptable and it is not.