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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of course it’s possible. It’s not that every person is a criminal. Especially not the violent kind that’s committing armed robberies. Get rid of the bad apples and let the rest live in a safer, nicer community.[/quote]

And letting these people thrive in the community only encourages more crime. Don't ask me, ask the murderer who the Council nominated to be on the sentencing commission. He says himself that seeing successful criminals turned him towards a life of crime and murder:

"Welfare checks came once a month, and people literally went from rags to riches in a couple of days. You started to see this influx of money in the hands of drug dealers. We didn’t call them drug dealers, we called them big boys. These were individuals I looked up to; they’d come up to the ice cream truck, pull out a knot of money and give it to everybody. They represented success. And that’s the only success that you saw."

https://time.com/6119243/joel-caston-prison-reform/

Of course, his solution is to remove consequences. There's a better solution - get these people off the streets so that they don't keep encouraging young and naive kids to pursue a life of crime.

But if you actually want to see the "root causes," there you go. Even when people were getting handouts and government money, they looked up to the criminals, since the criminals were allowed to have success. The people who talk endlessly about "root causes" but then ignore the actual facts on the ground don't really care about root causes, don't really care about crime, and don't really care about helping these communities. They only care about virtue signalling to others in their in-group.[/quote]

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