I'm not necessarily saying that I advocate harsher sentencing. However, I think it's possible that both the high incidence of crime and the severity of the sen

I'm not necessarily saying that I advocate harsher sentencing. However, I think it's possible that both the high incidence of crime and the severity of the sentences could be a result of the difficulty of catching a criminal, bringing them to trial, and carrying out sentences in a time before an organized law enforcement system.