EVERY community that goes soft on crime, ends up paying a heavy price. Keep letting violent criminals walk this easily and it might not be too long before property values start dropping. Hmm.

Every equation has two sides:

“Starting with bail loans” = bail bondsmen make a living.

“attorney fees for defense” = attorneys and law clerks and judges and court recorders and bailiffs make livings.

“visitation costs (travel, lodging)” = motels and oil companies and gas stations and airlines and bus lines and auto manufacturers and all the associated employees thereof make money

“low job prospects out of prison” = better chances for other unemployed people to find employment with fewer competitors for available jobs.

“health deterioration while imprisoned” = jobs for nurses and physicians and pharmaceutical manufacturers and all their employees and all the people they buy from.

“inability to develop equity in a home or retirement account” = money to those with rental properties and someone else gets to buy the house he might have otherwise bought, improved retirement accounts for all those benefitting above.

“restitution to victims” = partial repayment to those he harmed.

Add the construction companies building the courthouses, jails, prisons and all their employees and suppliers. Add the law enforcement officers. Add the gun sales to people realizing they may have to defend themselves from such if others don’t or can’t defend them. Remember I missed many who benefit by the need to deal with criminal attitudes and activities.

Sure, they could have benefitted in other ways did such crimes not exist, but not all lost out.

David for better people, fewer crimes