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Originally posted by widgeon13
So you identified what your believe is a problem, what is the solution? Other than not hiring military personnel for law enforcement, what do we need to do as a society to stem the rise in crime in this country?

There is no "rise of crime" in America. The crime that there is has a center; in the population percentage of young men, of specific ethnicity, and a direct relationship of making certain "things" illegal. Had there not been a "War on (some) Drugs", the duplicate of the Prohibition Era rise in crime during the 1960's and 1970's would not have existed. Essentially, the crime wave of the 60's-70's was government's fault. With the increase in age of those involved in those crimes during those decades, together with the decrease in the percentage of the population under 25 years of age is mostly responsible for the crime REDUCTION of the last 15 years.

Since a fair amount of the bad behavior seems to be driven by drug problems, I suppose you would say legalize drugs?

Those crimes aren't related to the drugs directly, they're related to the uncontrolled availability of them, and the fact that government has made them illegal. When you prohibit a thing, you remove control of that thing entirely. There is no known scientific rationale for making any drug illegal.

One of the most significant problems today in America is home meth labs, lethal, dangerous to everyone in the immediate vacinity and extremely difficult to identify. What is the solution if you do not have teams capable of going into locations once given probable cause?

How and why did meth labs come into existence? Because the government made easily obtainable, safer drugs illegal. Again, government is the root of these problems, not the drugs or their availability.

Are you saying that if you reduce police presence and police authority that you will see a corresponding drop in crime because the bad guys are really just good guys who like to misbehave on occasion?

Since we have prior experience that says yes, this is the case, and that's recreational Alcohol Prohibition; my answer is yes, all available evidence, that's proven facts, indicate that government prohibition is completely and utterly responsible for drug related problems.

I'd like to hear some constructive comments on what needs to be done to improve the situation not just cut and paste BS.

Right, don't trouble you with the facts, just pull things out of thin air.