I think you're oversimplifying the argument a bit. Nobody is arguing with your second point, the other poster simply said that increasing police strength isn't

I think you're oversimplifying the argument a bit. Nobody is arguing with your second point, the other poster simply said that increasing police strength isn't a long term solution(or even much of a short term one.) I also don't think the person you're responding to is really casting arresting criminals in a negative light itself, just that it is trying to fix a problem by only solving the second order problem, criminals committing crimes, and not the first order problem, eg economic racism/inequality, gerrymandering in every state of this country, etc, that causes people that face the worst problems of any people in our country to not have any advocates in government because their voices are designed to be drowned out politically and economically.