Crime in Detroit

[davewindsor]

What good can come of locking up someone who is an addict?

How about law, order and discipline for starters? How about not worrying about getting robbed every day to pay for someone's drug addiction?

What good can come of locking someone up who deals when there is another waiting to take their place as the new dealer?

Just because someone else can do something illegal doesn't make it morally right. That's like saying just because someone can beat up and rob someone else walking down the street wearing a gold necklace or expensive sneakers that that makes it right for you to do it. But, I bet this is common thinking in this city among crack addicts who need to pay for their fix. And one of the reasons why this city has such a high homicide and robbery rate.

You can build all the prisons you desire and you will fill them all but where will that get us? Right now we are on the verge of making privatized prisons the norm in America. Privatized prisons are just wrong in the sense that NOBODY should be making money from imprisonment.

It'll get you the Pax Romana--Roman peace. Classic civilizations did it for thousands of years and this was the norm among the ancients. The Romans lasted for thousands of years from 753 BC all the way up to Byzantines in the 1500s and they did it. They must have been doing something right to have lasted for so long. They were known as the world's greatest civilizers and modern governments incorporate a lot of Roman symbols to represent their connection to Rome's past such as the American Eagle [[which is based on the Roman eagle), the mace, latin phrases, city names such as Cincinnati based on the Roman General Cincinnatus, Roman architecture in government buildings, etc. People had respect for the law back then. Their system worked. It's your own opinion that it's wrong, but history shows us something different.