Writing at Power Line, Paul Mirengoff reports most police organizations oppose the leniency movement’s FIRST STEP legislation that would take it easy on drug sellers and child pornographers. I don’t find their opposition either surprising or wrong-headed.
COTTonLINE believes our society doesn’t have an over-incarceration problem, if anything we have an under-incarceration problem. Too many criminals reoffend more or less immediately after release.
If we knew how to rehabilitate criminals that would be different, our efforts in that regard fall far short of success. Recidivism is the norm, not the exception.
FIRST STEP could easily become for prisons, like the earlier effort for mental hospitals, one of those unfortunate issues where liberals want to let everyone out and conservatives want to spend less money housing habitual misbehavers.
When this collusion happens, you and I are the ones who suffer the downside of living with violent, greedy people in our midst. In their gated communities, the glitterati are semi-immune.
