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A comment on San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge. Parent comment
No one wants to put more people in jail.
I think poster is saying instead, policy should not encourage more criminals.
If you have X pool of existing law breakers, policy goal is to keep a % subset of X out of the prison system.
However, policy is increasing the size of X, to X+1.
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No one wants to put more people in jail.
I think poster is saying instead, policy should not encourage more criminals.
If you have X pool of existing law breakers, policy goal is to keep a % subset of X out of the prison system.
However, policy is increasing the size of X, to X+1.