The country can’t solve this problem without working of the busted families and rotten education system that cause it.
Typo - should read “working on”.
That's a common comment when discussing articles such as these, and in my opinion, if true, we are truely screwed as a country.
Why? Well, how much more can a bankrupt nation spend on social welfare and on gov't schools? How much of that increased spending can go towards current problem people when tens of millions of the same type of problem people flood into this country from the third world?
Our population may be increasing at a near-exponential rate, but the number of productive workers, who pay all the bills, sure isn't. And speaking as one of the productive tax-paying citizens, I'm already paying far too much in taxes.
With all due respect, I must disagree. Simply by returning to an old and proven method of law enforcement, we could cut prison costs to a mere fraction of their now exorbitant levels, and produce a nation of self regulating citizens.
Bring Back Bounties! Make a dead violent criminal worth the cost of a year's incarceration and crime would drop to a fraction of today's criminal activity..