"We cannot forget that even when this state was at its highest levels of incarceration, tragedies still occurred. We cannot revert to thinking that the solution to any problem is more incarceration . . . when those policies do not make us safer."https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Don-t-use-S-F-tragedy-to-justify-return-to-15869071.php …
I would say the issue in the cases of prolific criminals is that they need to be locked up, not that we need to put walls around every sidewalk. It's a separate issue anyway.
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yup, certainly society would be better with certain folks away from the rest of it (see national news); again, dealing with the conditions that result in crime seems better than symptoms of it.
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