Comments on Oly Action: Democrats Continue Pushing Tough-on-Crime Agenda

Who's going to pay for the jails?

We can barely afford paying over 50 percent of our county taxes for them right now, and this will just make it worse.

Knee-jerk jailing does not work.

Josh: please, please, don't ruin "Oly."

Wow. First there was Jamie Pedersen's bill banning people with mental health issues from owning guns (affecting far more women and gays than heterosexual men). Now a bill to increase sentences against young minorities.

Can Pedersen and Dickerson just cut to the chase and introduce a bill declaring heterosexual white men to be the superior race?

When I worked in Olympia, we had a saying for the Democrats approach to crime "Never get passed on the right"

Today there was an interesting piece in the PI about how hard youth offenders are finding it to find jobs and integrate back into society. Making it even harder sounds like an awesome idea.

Seriously, we complain endlessly about recidivism, and yet when it comes to addressing crime, the answer is always more punishment, so politicians can look "tough." It see once they've served their time leads to more crime, not less, and netting more people as convicts will just add to the problem.