“So finding fewer criminals and doing that slower is better somehow?”
Exactly. We not only have the laws on the books, we have the tech to enforce it efficiently.
The next frontier is ‘humane treatment’ of convicts. We need to neuter the supreme court interpretation of that. Let each state interpret humane treatment for itself.
Let’s skip the intermediary steps and go for the ultimate frontier - letting each person charged with a crime interpret what humane treatment means and should be made legally binding on the charging parties, state or federal.