Anonymous wrote:No doubt criminals are bad influence for impressionable youth and by going easy on crime and lazy on rehabilitation, we are giving a message that hurting, robbing, hating people is perfectly fine and laws are meant to be broken because criminals don't face consequences. Power is might, drugs are saviors and education is waste of time.

This was perfectly fine with much of the U.S. for 200+ years

No doubt criminals are bad influence for impressionable youth and by going easy on crime and lazy on rehabilitation, we are giving a message that hurting, robbing, hating people is perfectly fine and laws are meant to be broken because criminals don't face consequences. Power is might, drugs are saviors and education is waste of time.

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Anonymous wrote:Idk if its empathy for the perpetrator either. If they don't face consequences and get help now then they'll eventually end up as criminals.

Anyone older than a toddler needs to know they can't hit people, its insane and criminal.

+1 There are good kids in that neighborhood who would be helped by getting the criminals out

Exactly. How does it serve at-risk children to allow them to grow up with animals like this in their midst? They need to be removed from society until there is a way to safely re-integrate them. The people who excuse this kind of behavior away are only helping to facilitate the cycle to continue on and on and on. It's mind boggling that they don't understand this and foolishly think they are somehow helping them by being so lenient.