> Those might all be nice things for a society to provide, but it isn't going to reduce the crime rate. Sure, because this whole conversation very intentionall

> Those might all be nice things for a society to provide, but it isn't going to reduce the crime rate. Sure, because this whole conversation very intentionally ignores the biggest drivers of the crime rate. Most crime is committed by people the “law and order” crowd has no interest in going after. If we really want to make a dent in the crime rate, we should tackle things like wage theft and police misconduct and civil asset forfeiture. Wait — that last one’s not actually a crime, because crime is socially constructed and we’ve decided that stealing is okay if the right people do it. The entire point of this “crime wave” project is to find ways to criminalize people we as a society don’t like.