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Originally Posted by Cherry7
How many bankers do we allow to break the economy?
How many white people do we arrest for cocaine?
How many black people for crack?
Peoples behaviour is conditioned by the institutions they grow up in. Put a child in a loving family with a good school and interesting career ahead of him and most will flourish.
Put a child in a broken society with a family failing, crap schooling and the cops stopping you every 5 minutes and you will get crime.
If America spent the money it wastes on Wars and prisons and spent it on good jobs and schools you would have a fraction of the crime. Plus some civil rights.
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I don't disagree, but at some point you have to take responsibility for your own actions. If someone is young and does something dumb because they feel helpless or lost or held down by the man and they are punished from it, they should learn from that and realize that what they are doing is wrong and they need to change their ways.
The jail system needs to be reformed so that when these people come out of jail they have some kind of skill or at least some kind of direction and can get a job and join society instead of just going back to being a criminal.
At the same time, I as a law abiding citizen, shouldn't have to worry about having my shit stolen, my house broken into or getting mugged simply because these people are "victims of society" and don't know any better.