Practically all crime is at an all-time low, but that's largely beside the point. Is the risk of robbery intolerably awful, or have we become unreasonably timi

Practically all crime is at an all-time low, but that's largely beside the point. Is the risk of robbery intolerably awful, or have we become unreasonably timid? I think that America (and to a significant extent Canada) is still in the throes of zero tolerance culture, where any risk is intolerable and any action to mitigate risk is justified. Two kids get into a scuffle at school? Expel them both. Don't worry about what happens to those kids, don't worry about who started the fight, don't worry about the chilling effect on normal childhood behaviour, because we have zero tolerance for violence. The war on drugs, the war on terror, the broken window theory, mandatory minimum sentences, three-strike laws, the criminalization of poverty, the school-to-prison pipeline. When the only acceptable rate of crime is zero, the ends always justify the means. https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/crime-trends1990-2016 https://www.brennancenter.org/publication/crime-trends1990-2...