Either they'll spend a ridiculous, unsubstantiated amount of money on this or, more likely, they'll move to a more private model of corrections. |
Except for the very unlikely event of being hit by a stray bullet, the country is very much as safe to walk around in as it was a decade ago. |
It may be that this is something that we'll have to face with an increasing frequency in the coming decades. |
Most crimes are committed by people who are not particularly skilled at what they do. |
What we see in other parts of the world is not all that uncommon -- kidnapping of wealthy individuals for ransom. And in Canada and the United States we have been relatively immune from that kind of problem. |