Imprisoning people is treating the symptom, not the cause.
If you don't treat the cause, then you'll just continue getting more symptoms.
Maybe we should figure out what it is about the USA that keeps generating so much more antisocial behavior than everywhere else and fix that.
Seems like the problem in the US is there are pockets of society which have multi generational issues where the parents don’t know how to teach their kids to be successful since their lives have been a failure too. As well as an environment that normalises crime.
It seems extremely difficult to break this cycle without actually removing kids from their parents/friend groups.
Re:Train burglaries in LA
by paulryanrogers on Sunday January 16, 2022 @04:30PM
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Another complicating factor could be that the US has a more diverse population. Tribalism is hard to overcome, especially with a messy history of racism and oppression.
How is this unique to the US?
We have many criminals.
Criminals deserve punishment, including jail should the crime be severe enough.
Criminals prey on law abiding citizens.
If you won't enforce the law, citizens will take the law into the their own hands.
Then you will be forced to cry for criminals even more than you are doing now.