I sometimes wonder if the tax paying citizens of all states realize the amount of their money that is spent to investigate crime.
Gang units, homicide detectives, SWAT teams, patrol officers, CSI units, autopsies when one gang banger kills another, parole/probation, lawyers, courts, prisons and of course victim compensation funds. That is the short list.
I’m a firm believer in the “Australia” experiment. Send gang bangers, those who support them, murders, rapists etc etc to an island far away from productive citizens, secure the waters around the area to assure they can not escape but let em have a free for all....and I’m talking life sentences here not short term prison stays.