"we just don't want to put people in jail anymore." This is laughably far from the truth. There are loads and loads and loads of people who want to put people

"we just don't want to put people in jail anymore." This is laughably far from the truth. There are loads and loads and loads of people who want to put people in jail. You can see that very clearly by looking at the number of people in jail. Here's [1] an article about rising populations in a Seattle jail: "The overall population at King County’s two jails fell from over 1,900 to about 1,300 during the pandemic, as the county moved to increase alternatives to incarceration. But since then, the jail population has crept back up to about 1,600." [1] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/king-county-looks-to-contract-out-jail-services-to-deal-with-understaffing-rising-populations/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/king-county-looks-...