Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for June 07, 2021

Do the moat monsters need feeding?

So, how much does crime cost now?

What is the solution? How can the king bring the crime rate down?

by not prosecuting crimes? “pretending” you don’t see any crimes?

or changing laws so that almost nothing is a crime?

Let them all out. They’re just poor misguided souls who only need a second chance to find their moral compass.

Our local paper re-ran Friday’s by mistake.

Crime goes down when opportunities for the least financially stable go up. The safest societies are those that take good care of their poorest.

Sounds like Oklahoma. We have to keep the private prisons stocked.

Many have the will to work for a living. Some have the view that stealing is working. If that view can’t be changed, stealing will continue to offer opportunity to part of the population, even though the risk/return odds put it on the low side of success. Endless loop.

The Fink always disliked the competition.

The solution is simple. Deport all criminals, to the Republic of Burundi the poorest country in the world. Don’t tell Burundi, just pay coyotes to sneak them across the border at night. Why not! Other countries have been doing it to us for decades.

Time for another “Purge”

The solution: no laws. You can’t break the law if there are no laws.

Very interesting range of COMMENTS here today. In the 60s our penal system in US moved from being one of punitive to one of being rehabilitative. Not so sure we have found the solution yet!

I missed the old caption…

Too bad for Id. Fortunately, in the USA, crime has been going down steadily for decades.

George III emptied the jails in England, by sending the convicts to the colony of Georgia. After American independence, the Brits sent the convicts to Australia.

What a state!

In the US the crime rate overall is down AND the prisons are overflowing.

As long as you have laws, you will have criminals breaking laws…so the answer is…no laws!