Cool Hand Luke
Posted on 07/08/2022 4:28:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
And if we don't get a handle on this one, it's all over.
Recently, a Connecticut teen, reportedly a gang member with an extensive rap sheet, was arrested in connection with 18 shootings. For years this young man has been out on the streets, committing crimes, getting arrested, and repeatedly being released. It's time to crack down on crime, but in many leftist districts, politicians and prosecutors are having none of it.
There is an abnormal amount of crime in the U.S., though progressives continue to deny it. The most convincing proof is the murder rate: there are 2.6 as many homicides in the U.S. as in Canada (2019 figures), five times as many as in Germany, more than sixteen times more than in Japan. Violent crime in the U.S. is very real, and it is out of control.
Politicians like Biden and Harris talk about bail reform, over-representation of minorities in prison, and "root causes" of everything. But the plain truth is that there are violent criminals out there who are entirely lacking in conscience and feeling. The only solution is to apprehend these criminals and send them to prison for a long time — and to make prison a place where they will not want to return after they are released.
Prison conditions should be harsh, not the country club of decent meals, clean cells, elective health care, and cable TV enjoyed by most prisoners today. There is nothing "cruel and unusual" about providing spartan, unappealing conditions for those who prey on society and make life intolerable for many innocent persons.
This is the approach of the Japanese prison system, in which inmates are assigned simple cells with tatami mats for sleeping and sitting during the day and in which simple meals consist of rice, barley, fish, and
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The left instinctively sides with evil so, of course they empathize with the criminals. They are both parasites on society.
Progressives(Democrat/communists) deny the level of crime because most of that criminal element is their most loyal voter base. There...I said it.
They “side with evil” so they can set back and tell us that we NEED them to protect us when they are the actual problem.
All leading to a National Police Force.
The innocent people who are killed in this crime-run-wild scene are merely collateral damage. Gotta break a few eggs.
Cool Hand Luke
US taxpayers are footing the bill for these extravagances. For profit industries are taking advantage of the bottomless cash pit and selling this crap to wardens who just eat it up. Meanwhile prisoners know they can stay fed and well cared for if they stay on the inside. It’s almost like we’re incentivizing crime.
“The only solution is to apprehend these criminals and send them to prison for a long time — and to make prison a place where they will not want to return after they are released.”
“long time” = expensive.
“place where they will not want to return” = cheap.
Also cops and citizens need to apply punishments that we don’t need to know about.
Commies consider violent criminals to be allies who keep the population dependent on them.
You get the government you elect.
And in these hellhole cities, the same people keep getting re-elected over and over.
They have what they voted for.
Not my problem
Any article concerned about national murder rates is flawed if it doesn’t point that young black men commit murders at 10x to 20x of others.
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