I know this will ruffle some feathers but I don't believe in the punishment system of criminal justice. A real criminal justice system should be focused around deterring crime not punishing criminals. As long as we have a system focused on punishment rather than deterrence, we will continue to have crime problems. A system of punishment feeds itself. It has no reason to deter crimes because it only eats when people commit crimes.
We have an emotional need to punish criminals that's not logical. Isolation from society has been a punishment for crime for thousands of years. It only serves as a direct deterrent. It does not deter the next criminal.
Tay-k didn't do shit to society. He allegedly killed actually people with families. Those people have been wronged but society has not been wronged to where we feel emotionally invested in his "punishment". Society has an interest in preventing him from hurting more people but once he's done shit nothing we can do would make up for the shit he has done.
I look at this crime news as propaganda meant to scare people into supporting an oppressive criminal justice system. It's sad all the way around but us talking about it without supporting a fix to the system does nothing.
Imagine a world where instead of spending all these billions on this dumb ass system we spent the money on identifying and diverting the next Tay-K. We ain't talking about how he got to where he is and how we can prevent the next kid from crashing out.
We have an emotional need to punish criminals that's not logical. Isolation from society has been a punishment for crime for thousands of years. It only serves as a direct deterrent. It does not deter the next criminal.
Tay-k didn't do shit to society. He allegedly killed actually people with families. Those people have been wronged but society has not been wronged to where we feel emotionally invested in his "punishment". Society has an interest in preventing him from hurting more people but once he's done shit nothing we can do would make up for the shit he has done.
I look at this crime news as propaganda meant to scare people into supporting an oppressive criminal justice system. It's sad all the way around but us talking about it without supporting a fix to the system does nothing.
Imagine a world where instead of spending all these billions on this dumb ass system we spent the money on identifying and diverting the next Tay-K. We ain't talking about how he got to where he is and how we can prevent the next kid from crashing out.