There's a lot of evidence that once a punishment is big enough, it makes no difference on deterence, but that's very different from saying punishment vs no punishment is the same.
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/ffct-prsn/i...
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr...
Are you saying that punishing bad behavior consistently won't deter criminals? That flies in the face of common sense that I don't believe claims of "no evidence".
Most children do have a concept of consequence. They certainly understand that calling police will be traced back to them. I was a kid once, they're not as stupid as you think.
I'm saying teenagers are frequently fucking idiots, and that sending them into the American prison system is a "solution" that causes even more damage.
Which is a consequence of some teachers abusing that unofficial privilege.
The police have become the only authority with the ability to use force in society.
That too is being questioned now because of abuse of authority.
Which leads to all sorts of questions about who should be the allowed to take action against bad behaviour?
Who watches the watchmen?
It’s understandable why the death penalty isn’t such a harsh deterrent for everyone.
> Drivers who receive speeding citations are at increased risk of receiving subsequent speeding citations, suggesting that speeding citations have limited effects on deterrence in the context of the current traffic enforcement system.
Phone networks make faking calls trivial, because spam callers want it to be. swatters piggyback on that to be able to swat you from all over the world.
Police departments in some countries will respond hard to claims of violence in progress, making it easy to get the response you desire.
There's no point having the death penalty for swatting if you can keep doing it from anywhere in the world with virtually no chance of being caught.
These kids aren't doing this shit because they expect to get caught.
The real problem is the militarization of the police force, and the idea that all it takes is a random phone call (without any proof or verification) to have someone's house stormed by a squad of men with guns and military gear.
Instead of trying to solve that unsolvable "problem", we should be focusing on the "real problems" that actually ARE solvable, like excessive and unwarranted (literally) police force.