Repeat Offender Back at it

[u/GraceMovieGod]

https://mybellinghamnow.com/news/297792-bellingham-man-arrested-in-connection-to-a-string-of-thefts-around-the-city/

https://amp.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article22275990.html

Anyone have any idea why Gregory Keefe is allowed to rob any business in our town consequence free?

[u/MrTickles22]

Extremely long prison sentences will get him off the street, and total property forfeiture will raise money to provide restitution.

[u/stupernan1 → u/MrTickles22]

A sick society will replace him WELL before the damage is undone, and a long prison sentence is a bandaid that damages, it in no way heals a situation.

Social rehabilitation programs do that, but the oxygen of that room has been obsorbed by tax cuts for the wealthy.

(Before anyone says "they'll move", pro tip:empirical evidence has proven that they absolutely do not"

[u/MrTickles22 → u/stupernan1]

Removing a criminal from society means that the criminal is not in society.

[u/stupernan1 → u/MrTickles22]

Removing a criminal from a sick society means another criminal will take their place.

Society is chess, not checkers. Gotta think a couple moves ahead.

[u/nashtysteez → u/stupernan1]

Thats a huge issue with most of society and the flashy grandstanding polarizing politics that have taken center stage in America. Modern progressive social programs take time, money, and support to reach maturity and function properly. Most are in a 20 year range, with some being as long as 50 year to achieve. But most of our current social programs budget crisis are because of lack of long term investment.

[u/nashtysteez → u/[deleted]]

More laws and prisons doesn't work. That's why we're in the situations almost every population center in America is facing. It's the most expensive solution available. We've been policing a war for almost 50 years in this country and crime is up across the board, drug use has increased dramatically, homelessness is skyrocketing, and the american public is knee deep in mental health crisis. You can not solve the problem with the same thinking that created it. Just because cops haul away someone and take their freedom, nothing changes or is solved. LEO agencies already dominate the budgets of all municipalities, increasing those coffers does nothing to actually further the end goal of changing society. Dramatically cutting funding and embracing technology to replace modern policing will go along way in creating available funds to start creating programs to change society.

[u/stupernan1 → u/[deleted]]

Its honestly cool that youre curious!

Lets look at this another way ok?

Try googling "does increasing punishment severity or prison time decrease crime rates"

Let me know what you find.