Some years ago as a nation we began locking up career criminals for progressively longer periods of time and, mirabile dictu, crime rates went down. We encouraged proactive policing and, golly, they went down some more.
Now the trend is going in the other direction, opinion-makers talk about "over-incarceration" and argue for sentencing reform to lock up fewer people. And the ever-popular #BlackLivesMatter claque harass police into staying in their cruisers, leaving petty criminals free to metastasize into felons.
The results of freeing criminals cannot be good. Ironically, those arguing most loudly for jailing fewer perps are those who will be most victimized by the released criminals. Those harassing police are the ones most likely to be shot by another black person.
Like deinstitutionalizing the insane, this is an evil collaboration between liberals who believe criminals are "good at heart" and conservatives who resent spending so much money on prisons. Such collaborations leave our society in a worse place.
As Mr. Spock might have said, "It is not logical, Captain."
