Yes, Liberals, We Can Jail Our Way to a Low-Crime Society
One of the many weird tics of liberals in 2025 is their ferocious support of criminals. Liberals not only want to defund the police, but they also go above and beyond to try to keep criminals from facing justice for their crimes.
They put district attorneys in place who often give criminals slaps on the wrist for their crimes if they prosecute them at all, and they put bail laws in place that allow criminals to almost immediately get out of jail while awaiting trial. That’s why we see stories like these all the time:
Not one of these stories you just read about should have ever happened because the people who committed them should have long since been locked away until they died in prison. There’s no rational reason that any of them should have ever been walking the streets by the time they committed their crimes.
Granted, there are cases where people turn their lives around and, in some instances, rehabilitation works. However, what are the chances that a guy with 15+ arrests is going to suddenly turn the corner and start flying on the straight and narrow? It has to be pretty low.
Furthermore, the evidence is overwhelming that a relatively small number of repeat offenders commit a MAJORITY (or pretty close) of the crimes:
El Salvador had an even worse problem than we do, and they rather famously fixed it by simply jailing every gang member they could find. That tactic turned out to be extremely effective:
El Salvador ended 2024 with a historic milestone in public safety: just 114 homicides. That’s an average of 0.31 homicides per day for a rate of 1.89 murders per 100,000 people, a 26.9% decrease from 2023 (40 fewer murders recorded).
This achievement made 2024 the safest year in El Salvador in over 50 years, a dramatic shift from 2015, when the country was labeled “the murder capital of the world.”
...The Bukele administration attributes this dramatic drop in homicides to two major security initiatives: the Territorial Control Plan and the State of Exception.
The government launched the Territorial Control Plan security measure in June 2019; its purpose has been to crack down on the country’s violence and gangs.
Then, in March 2022, the Bukele administration introduced the controversial State of Exception, a direct attack on Salvadoran criminal gangs; it granted authorities the power to arrest suspected gang members and expanded security operations nationwide.
The government has widely credited these measures for turning around El Salvador’s decades-long struggle with gang violence and criminal impunity.
Although simply jailing every gang member in America by default would undoubtedly dramatically lower crime, unfortunately, the Constitution doesn’t allow us to do that.
That being said, it’s reasonable to think that by jailing the worst and most violent offenders long-term, it’s entirely possible that we could lower crime in America by 40-50%. Three strikes and you’re out. Three felony convictions and you’re in jail until you’re old or dead.
Alternately, if you hit the 10-arrest mark and there are any kind of sexual crimes or violent crimes in there, we should treat it similarly. After all, if someone gets arrested 10 times, how many times do you think they’ve gotten away with it? 50? 100? It has to be substantial – so, why do we want people like that on the streets, victimizing law-abiding citizens?
There are literally countries in the world where people leave their keys in the car when they run inside the grocery store, or mothers who leave their kids outside in a baby carriage when they go into shop. We can’t get there just with this, but can we lower crime a lot? Can we reduce the number of good people victimized by criminals? Can we make a much safer country by putting criminals who deserve it in jail, where they belong? Absolutely – and we should.
In addition to long term jail sentences for these repeat criminals, the judges or DA's who refuse to prosecute them need to pay a price too. I'd prefer their punishment be sharing a jail cell with the criminals they prosecuted, if any, for the same length of time as the criminal's sentence. Sadly, they'd probably be sharing a jail cell with a white collar type, not the animals they've negligently or purposefully allowed to prey on the public these judges and DA's are appointed to serve.
Even stupid people understand that locking up repeat offenders would reduce crime rate; however, if your goal is the destruction of the American system in particular and western civilization in general, then rampant crime is an intended feature, not a bug.