Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.
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.
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
Stand by the side of law enforcement, the men and women who are often the only semblance of hope and justice in the crime-ridden inner cities.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Incarcerating non-violent offenders in the same population as more dangerous criminals has the effect of inculcating the former into a culture of criminality common among the latter, making them more of a risk to public safety upon release than when they originally went in.
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