People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.
To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.
I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people can do bad things. It's probably better to understand people for the good things they do.
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.