The cogs in the system do what their political overlords demand.
Blaming a parole officer for a political decision to release a violent felon who has NOT served their full sentence is like blaming a kid for being fat who is only served McDonalds at every meal.
Almost 3 decades of hard-won experience and prior to the BLM/Antifa movement I always believed there was a pendulum that swung to one side or the other, but never too far either way.
It is now broken. We have moved the center very far to the left in most of the nation.
It will take a decade or longer to fix the criminal justice system in our nation and its being made worse by other factors such as the border, fentanyl, the homeless crisis/mental health, and now a collapsing economy.
Remember that a lot of “crime” can be linked to addiction that leads to “drug babies”. The increased drug abuse means another generation of young adults who are behaviorally challenged because their brains were damaged in utero and their early childhood sucked. We are still suffering the results of “crack babies” and now we have “meth babies” and soon it will be fentanyl babies.
Big pharma is also contributing as we have become a nation flush with psychotropic medication and nobody really knows how this impacts a fetus, young child in development, or teen/young adult. We are living with a generation of young adults who have been treated with SSRI medications that benefited big pharma and the teachers unions with long term damage to kids.
If you learn the story of most people in our prison system you will find a lot of the above - especially in the repeat offenders who cannot even last a few months on the outside.
We are also beginning to see the impact of very potent marijuana onto society that is quite popular with young people and young pregnant mothers despite its impact on brain/behavior development. Talk to psychologists or psychiatrists who treat those “involuntarily committed” for evaluation.... it’s real! This ain’t the hippie lettuce of the 70’s and it is presenting as schizophrenia and even psychosis.
I don’t see any reasons for optimism about “crime”.
Thank you for your post which actually contains very worthwhile contributions to the issues posed by this event. Narcotizing socierty (which in truth began in the 60’s) combined with liberals making certain ethnicities specially ‘protected classes’ for reasons that range from crass ballot hunting to real psychological disorganization that amounts to racial self hatred by liberals are two powerful factors pushing us into a weaponized conflict society that will end either in armed chaos or dictatorship. Liberals seem to have no perception of this and when it is brought up in a public context they simply start screaming and yelling rather than let the topic be discussed.