> The true tyranny is if you let crime go unchecked. First of all, you contradict accepted legal principles, which demands that a false negative is better than

> The true tyranny is if you let crime go unchecked. First of all, you contradict accepted legal principles, which demands that a false negative is better than a false positive. The more the number of people in prison, more the chances that there are innocent people in there. > That rate is because we have a high crime rate, combined with functioning law enforcement. Second, the state's goal is to reduce crime. Catching criminals is one of the many ways to do so, and punishing criminals after catching them is only one of the things the state can do. The state can alternatively spend money on reducing the root causes of crime (like poverty), and it can spend money on rehabilitation instead of punishment. These are among the wide variety of strategies a modern state can pursue to reduce crime.