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>The part that is missing is the personal responsibility.

Where is that missing? It is there today. The fact is that society bears the financial burden of someone spending a life in prison (and also the emotional/financial/physical burden of the person's actual crimes). You seem to be dismissing that to make an ideological stance.

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Thats not the case anymore in cities like Seattle/SF/LA that have removed funding from police and discouraged police to arrest for crimes like theft, breaking into cars, etc. In the cases where they are arrested they are released on no-bail hours later to do the same thing.

Now, to test the ideology, do Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Worth. All Republican cities in Republican states, all with surging crime. They didn’t take the actions you mentioned, but have the same result. Maybe it’s an opportunity to re-visit baseline assumptions.

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