someone’s gonna reply saying stricter sentences don’t work for youth crime. That investment in public health services and early prevention are far more effective.

I’m going to be downvoted for what I’m about to say here but I don’t give a fuck: Rehabilitation is a joke we tell ourselves to sleep at night whilst more people get killed.

I knew someone who was killed by an asshole who had previously been charged with violent sexual crimes who had no business being released and yet somehow made parole. He shouldn’t have made parole, we should have killed him (or at the very least locked him in the deepest darkest hole ever).

How can I say such a horrible thing? Because that’s exactly what happened. The fucker attacked a police office after the murder and was shot and killed. He committed a violent sexual crime, we let him out he did the same again before someone finally did what we should have done in the first place. As a society we failed the victims. Both the first, the second and the police officer that was attacked.

Judges make calls as if we can rehabilitate people. But we lack the infrastructure or investment to actually do that. Someone’s gonna tell me “But TinyBreak, that’s callous! Think of the human life”. To that I say: I am. I’m thinking of the victims. You attack someone your no longer human.

Either we get serious about rehabilitation (never gonna happen) or we get serious about punishment. You want it both ways? get comfortable with stories like this.

Sorry, rant over. I just… have a lot of feelings about this. The world was a better place with the victim I knew in it.