I want to agree with you. In fact I do agree with the point you're making about how policies, cultural values, and outcomes are intertwined. However you need t

I want to agree with you. In fact I do agree with the point you're making about how policies, cultural values, and outcomes are intertwined. However you need to realize that the country you're holding up as a counterexample brands people as felons over some fairly absurd things and more generally has a remarkably dysfunctional justice system that exhibits precisely the same cultural failures that you're objecting to here.