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> What exactly would police have done in any of these situations to prevent them from happening? They would have arrested and imprisoned the perpetrators, who
by thegrimmest 5y ago
> What exactly would police have done in any of these situations to prevent them from happening?
They would have arrested and imprisoned the perpetrators, who are more than likely to have long criminal histories, after their first offence. People don't often go from zero to armed home invasion.
> Progressives in the US want...
I'm not sure any of this will work if there's insufficient order as to prevent smash-and-grab robberies and shootings from being a daily occurence. I don't suppose these people are stealing to eat or pay for healthcare. Dollars are best spent incarcerating violent people a la Japan, rather than paying them and hoping they behave themselves. Living in a peaceful society is a right afforded only to those who remain nonviolent.
- confidantlake 5y agoThe US has an incarceration rate nearly 20 times that of Japan.
- thegrimmest 5y agoWhy do you think that is? Would you be willing to accept one of the reasons being a culture which is more tolerant of criminal behavior?
- confidantlake 5y agoI don't know why that is but it is clearly not because they are tolerant of criminal behavior. If the US is more tolerant of criminal behavior wouldn't they have a lower incarceration rate than Japan? If a higher incarceration rate lead to less crime wouldn't the US have less crime than Japan? Clearly our high incarceration rate hasn't fixed criminal behavior. Instead we should look at Japan and other countries with low crime rates to see what they do.