How to eliminate most crime almost anywhere.

[werdna]

Through any means available, regardless of political, social or economic systems in place:

> Ensure all citizens have access to safe and nourishing food.
> Ensure all citizens have sufficient housing accommodated to their physical and mental attributes.
> Ensure all citizens have adequate and sufficient access to health care.
> Ensure all citizens have appropriate opportunities to education suitable to their own passions and ambitions.
> Ensure all citizens have time and access to leisure activities suited to their physical and mental attributes and inclinations.

There are most likely more criteria to be included, but my brain says that's enough work this early in the morning. We can create whatever society we choose. Why continue to elect leaders who do not recognize the above? To quote Major Clipton from the ending of Bridge On the River Kwai, "Madness! Madness!"

[Blues Heron]

1. Legalize drugs

[JI7]

17. Drug addiction causes problems in many cases

Just legalizing it won't help.

Many addictions are to legalized drugs.

[KPN]

22. Seems logical, but that kind of backfired here in Oregon. I haven't researched all the details, but my three mid 30s to

early 40s kids all ended up being against it after a couple of years. Things apparently got worse, not better.

[Exp]

24. I dunno.. Except for a few people that I know that are responsible people, I think drugs make people flakey. nt

[Blues Heron]

27. You wouldn't throw people in jail for drugs anymore though, we never should have been doing that.

[Exp]

30. Agreed. People are going to be who they are. Pot should be 100% legal, alcohol regulated. Meth, heroin, cocaine, etc

should remain illegal.

IMO

[Melon]

26. That completely failed in Oregon

Overdoses rose, crime went up, murders were higher, crimes involving children including neglect.

If hard drugs were not a part of America, we would have a huge decrease in my opinion. Since that is not an option, we need to increase treatment to serve those addicted.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Vote for Democrats!

Crime goes down with Democrats in charge, period.

The Red States are mostly crime infested hellholes, the Blue States are mostly safe and clean.

[DinahMoeHum]

18. It's simple: Republicans cause poverty. . .

Poverty causes crime.

Therefore, Republicans cause crime.

[Johnny2X2X]

28. Yup

[tinrobot]

3. Not a new idea. Look at FDR's Second Bill of Rights

Not specifically aimed at crime, but many of the same ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

We missed out by not pursuing it 80 years ago.

[Glorious bastard]

4. None of this eliminates white collar corporate crime and its corruption of social institutions

which is far more damaging to the fundamental stability of a society at large.

[Attilatheblond]

9. That class of disease could only be helped by development of vaccines

We need to develop vaccines to stop the dual scourges of greed and narcissism.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Was About To Say...

...prosecute white color crime.
Harshly.
Street crime is not going to be easy to fight when example after example of multimillion dollar fraud goes unpunished or gets a slap on the wrist.
It encourages risk taking on the part of more petty criminal actors.

[BlueTsunami2018]

21. Yeah it does.

You just have to eliminate capitalism. The poison that drives all of this bullshit.

[Glorious bastard]

25. This is a good point, actually.

Indirectly it does. All the remedies proposed in the OP reinforce the social institutions that corporate crime attempts to undermine.

But corporatism goes beyond capitalism. It finds ways to collude with and even control government, which, at least according to the capitalist dogma, is supposed to be small enough to be drowned in a bathtub. Instead, as we can see now more clearly than ever, corporatism encourages the growth of government in the exact areas that serve to enable their crimes.

[werdna]

32. Well, no economic system is without it's flaws . . .

. . .and I am definitely an advocate for Capitalism, a well regulated Capitalism could serve the country as well as a well regulated any other economic system.

[KPN]

23. THIS.

[werdna]

31. True.

Which is why I put parameters on the article by stating "most crime almost anywhere". I should have noted that my thoughts were in reaction to Trump's ordering of the NG to eliminate crime. Never gonna happen that way.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Places that have put in basic income & basic housing have seen crime fall, health improve & gov costs decline. . . . .nt

[FirefighterJo]

6. Take away the guns

Any idea how difficult it is in Europe to own a gun (Besides Switzerland but that is a different story.) ? We rarely have gun deaths...

[PhilG]

12. You Have a License For That ?

My wife and I watch a lot of murder mysteries. Foreign and older USA stuff. We always look at each other when the cop asks, "You have a license for that gun, rifle or weapon?"

Sad that we can't even outlaw assault weapons.

[LonePirate]

7. Human emotion is a large contributor to crime

[Rebl2]

10. From

What I understand from what the police have said in the city where I live (which has a high number of murders again this year), many are the result of arguments, domestic violence included. So I agree with you, human emotions are a contributing factor to crime. Some people have never learned to resolve arguments/disagreements peacefully, only by using violence.

[TheRickles]

11. And those negative emotions would be less inflamed if the OP's ideas were instituted.

[BeneteauBum]

14. Violence is the last resort of the incompetent

Per Issac Asimov.
I raised my kids with ‘violence is not an option’.
Peace ☮️

[AllaN01Bear]

8. the rs would stammer , thats socializim

[maxsolomon]

15. There's still going to be crime if this utopia is enacted.

The mentally ill, larking teens, crimes of passion. Those are most of what we're seeing now.

Even the murder of the pretty Ukrainian lady that has the Right in a frenzy - that MFer is crazy. No amount of troops in the streets is going to stop a schizophrenic with a knife.

[William Seger]

16. A lot of actual crime fighting could have been done with the $120 million

... that the faux-king fascist spent deploying the National Guard to LA., and I'm gonna guess that D.C. and Chicago will each cost more than that.

[swong19104]

19. My sentiments completely

And enacting such policies is cheaper than the current incarceration route.

[BlueTsunami2018]

20. Yes the six basics that everyone should have.

Food, water, housing, healthcare, education and a job.

I would add internet access.

What you’re talking about is building a socialist state. That what we should have. But a hundred years of anti-socialist/communist propaganda from the ruling class has made that all but impossible in this country.

[werdna]

33. While many of the variety of socialisms currently in existence. . .

. . .would be preferable to the "capitalism" we enjoy, I believe a well regulated Capitalism could provide for all of the conditions in the prime posting.

[BlueTsunami2018]

34. Nah, because it never stays well regulated.

Eventually the ruling class takes all those regulations away.

[Doodley]

29. Good list, but I'd also add that the gaslighting, hatred, bigotry, anger, and division perpetrated by the right

(media and politicians) needs to go. Get the money and corruption out of politics, and yes, I agree that healthcare for all is essential, and ease of mental healthcare access is needed.