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It's really pretty simple, happy people don't tend to be assholes. Politicians, if you want less crime don't build more prisons, make life better. I mean, that's your job isn't it?
Are you telling me that we should stop incorporating a police state, arresting homeless people for public loitering, putting bars on benches? Instead offer more public services and free healthcare to get them back on their feet and better yet, mitigate homelessness to people at risk of being homeless?
Nah, I think we should make it easier to put people in prison for misdemeanors instead.
Yes, but consider that too many people in power have no fucking clue how to run a country and they see public funds like a cookie jar.