...We can’t just lock up a low-level dealer without asking why this boy, barely out of childhood....
Oh yes we can. It’s not a mistake, which criminals usually tell the judge. It’s a conscious decision that is wrong. It is a criminal decision.
Lack of dad in the hone. We cant do qnything about that. Not taking schooling seriously. A personal d!cision. Taking the easy way out. Personal decision. Attitude of the group the dealer runs with? The “ glamor and macho of the thug lifestyle? The glorification of it. The criminal has to want to do what’s right like everyone else. And the criminal must live with the consequences the lifestyle he chooses.
FWIW, I had a friend in the FBI who said just about exactly what you said. Criminals make these decisions because they are easier than playing by the rules like the rest of us.
“Lack of dad in the hone. We cant do qnything about that. Not taking schooling seriously. A personal d!cision. Taking the easy way out. Personal decision. Attitude of the group the dealer runs with? The “ glamor and macho of the thug lifestyle? The glorification of it. The criminal has to want to do what’s right like everyone else. And the criminal must live with the consequences the lifestyle he chooses.”
Actually, the “progressives” did do quite a bit.
Lack of Dad in the home? Incentivized by “progressive” policies from Welfare to Great Society programs.
Not taking school seriously? Glorification of the “black” thug culture and insistance that bad results in school are because of “racism” has a great deal to do with that. Studying hard in school is consistently derided as “acting white” in most urban black communities, as was shown in Washington, D.C.
Taking the easy way out? See the above, and the attitude that has been pushed that hard work does not gain you anything. Pushed hard by the “Progressive” social justice types.