But youre hitting on a key issue. Jails for at offering people help and rehabilitation.
What pisses me off the most about society, is that if we truly cared about or wanted to holistically curve issues such as crime in a drastic way, the solution and preventive measures are rather is easy and not hard to come by.
There's plenty of research out, that corners how and why people commit crimes. There truly should never be justifiable reasons for cops to feel amped up enough like they're in a war zone. Societal inequity and a lack of resources, is a big reason why people commit crime. Compared to other advanced democracies the United States has a rather limited or outdated safety social net.
Another huge correlation I researched on pubmed revolved around being functionally illiterate and crime. It should come as no surprise that many people caught up in the criminal justice system are dyslexic or have some form of mental learning disability. Our country does a piss poor job of properly addressing this disparity due to limited resources. I'm not shytting on the professionals who work in these fields, because I know they're ultra qualified and passionate about what they do, but in same demeanor, there's limited funding towards having a sustainable and contemporary infrastructure, that properly assesses at risk individuals.
My biggest grief of all, is the constant rhetoric of attempting to associate a simple solution, talking point, trope or dog whistle to a sophisticated, complicated, multilayered and complex problem.
The more I learn, the more I wake up even more disillusioned living in a paradox. I can see why plantation owners, never wanted to slaves to read.
