We need to be far more harsh on crime. Most good natured people aren't accidentally finding themselves the subject of police intervention.

Unfortunately we have strong laws on this already, this is a root cause problem.

Letting people out/off early is a problem. From what I understand, Illinois has eliminated cash bail, which has made crime way worse.

Letting people out/off early is a problem.

Do you honestly think spending an extra 15 years surrounded by other violent criminals is going to reduce the chance of him re-offending?

Do you even know why people are being let out on parole early in the first place? It’s because we’ve been tougher on crime than any other wealthy nation in the world for the last 50 years, and now we have more prisoners than prison space.

I don't care about them being rehabilitated. I care about keeping dangerous criminals off the streets.

The best way to keep dangerous criminals off the street is to rehabilitate the criminals… Or better yet, remove the economic environmental conditions that drive people to crime in the first place.

What’s your alternative? Are we just throwing anybody who gets in a bar fight in prison for the rest of their lives?

If your idea of “justice” worked America would already be the safest place on earth. Despite America only making up around 4% of the population we house 20% of the global prison population . If you’re ideology actually made us safe, don’t you think it would have worked by now?

Which “economic environmental conditions” lead to rape?