We need public shaming. Those who perform bad acts should be exposed in public forum. If they have family the family should also apologize to the community. For those who don’t have family they must do community service and work for the businesses that they caused harm for free. If these ideas don’t work then we should force our public officials to come up with other pragmatic solutions.

I’m sorry, but where did you see me write “let’s do nothing”? I said you approach the issue from a lack of resources perspective; that’s the proven solution to keep folks from committing crimes. and again, people do commit crimes or become victims of ones in prison, but I guess you’d ignore that because it’s happening to folks you don’t care about.

People commit crimes WHILE they are behind bars, and people who have been incarcerated are more likely than others to commit crimes after release.

There is no credible research out there that supports your belief that incarceration reduces crime. 

This is one of those things where, actually (and maybe even surprisingly) there’s no debate.  There’s no two sides here.  INCARCERATION DOES NOT REDUCE CRIME.  (Honestly, I wish it were that easy!  In part cuz then we’d have super low crime, given how many people we jail, lol).  But it is not true, and you or me wanting to believe it doesn’t change the facts.  

I think people tend to forget that one of the benefits of incarceration is that people tend to commit less crimes while they are behind bars.This is the 2nd destructive safe/atm theft in a 1-mile radius in 2 weeks. Somethin’ gotta change. Doing nothing isn’t going to make the problem better.

Even if they don’t consider the penalty PRIOR to the crime… most certainly a serious consequence will wake up their stupidity(as well as their thug friends, realizing there ARE consequences! 

even the DOJ (and before you ask, yes, even under the Trump admin.) advocates that harsher penalties do nothing to prevent crime and actually end up increasing criminality. outside of the DOJ, research has shown that people that end up doing something criminal 1) don’t consider the consequences, nor expect to be caught and 2) a large amount of people that commit a crime are in a non-rational state of mind. the only way to address crime is to prevent the conditions that cause people to do it, i.e. lack of resources.

If the goal is deterring crime, reliable, consistent consequences are more effective than harsh penalties only intermittently enforced.