Nobody actually wants to fix crime. We know there are a bunch of interventions with meaningful impacts on the crime rate. This ranges from actually keeping rep

Nobody actually wants to fix crime. We know there are a bunch of interventions with meaningful impacts on the crime rate. This ranges from actually keeping repeat offenders in jail to making preschool freely available. Nobody does them. It isn't cost, there doesn't seem to generally be an ethical outcry, etc. Just nobody actually wants to address the problem. They instead want to leverage crime to achieve some other goal. Actually fixing crime harms the ability to use crime to achieve other ends. So it goes.