@Chippy_Tea
If I get your meaning, I agree there is no doubt that we do have to catch the fish that get through the net and fishermen to do it to keep others safe (lazy analogy but I'm not changing it). But our ultimate solution must be something other than "build prisons" or "hire more police." Cost-wise, alone, that would be a strain on the tax payers.
How many three year olds are angry little jerks? A few certainly and those are one set of outliers I mentioned in my previous post so prisons are necessary.
The vast majority of people are good and will do good on their own if given the chance. Even in that video, the kid punched the person in the arm (dic* move BUT he didn't take a swing at the face) but a completely lost cause case would have stabbed the person in the throat so I think there's hope maybe for that kid.
What I am saying is, somewhere along the line, we're losing the middle-of-the-road kids. That's what needs to be given serious consideration. Granted, even in a perfect system those middle kids might not be the greatest contributors to society but they also wouldn't be criminals.
Both of our countries are going to have to spend the time, energy and money either way but spending it early would result in fewer prisons and more contributing citizens.
Interestingly, police aren't necessary for an upstanding citizen to live a good life except for protection. This citizen will naturally obey rules because they're beneficial to himself and to his fellow citizens and not because he'll go to jail if he breaks a law.
In any case, I'm not so sure that any amount of policemen deters criminality in an effective ratio. If I had a mind to, I could get away with seriously bad behavior, even if there was a patrol car every fifteen minutes.
Basically, using force isn't the ultimate solution in my opinion but our capacity to use problem solving and reason is.
Off to the Detroit Zoo (which isn't actually in Detroit, by the way). It's been years but should be fun.