Just legalizing it won't help.

Many addictions are to legalized drugs.

early 40s kids all ended up being against it after a couple of years. Things apparently got worse, not better.

should remain illegal.

IMO

Overdoses rose, crime went up, murders were higher, crimes involving children including neglect.

If hard drugs were not a part of America, we would have a huge decrease in my opinion. Since that is not an option, we need to increase treatment to serve those addicted.

Crime goes down with Democrats in charge, period.

The Red States are mostly crime infested hellholes, the Blue States are mostly safe and clean.

Poverty causes crime.

Therefore, Republicans cause crime.

Not specifically aimed at crime, but many of the same ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

We missed out by not pursuing it 80 years ago.

which is far more damaging to the fundamental stability of a society at large.

We need to develop vaccines to stop the dual scourges of greed and narcissism.

...prosecute white color crime.
Harshly.
Street crime is not going to be easy to fight when example after example of multimillion dollar fraud goes unpunished or gets a slap on the wrist.
It encourages risk taking on the part of more petty criminal actors.

You just have to eliminate capitalism. The poison that drives all of this bullshit.

Indirectly it does. All the remedies proposed in the OP reinforce the social institutions that corporate crime attempts to undermine.

But corporatism goes beyond capitalism. It finds ways to collude with and even control government, which, at least according to the capitalist dogma, is supposed to be small enough to be drowned in a bathtub. Instead, as we can see now more clearly than ever, corporatism encourages the growth of government in the exact areas that serve to enable their crimes.

. . .and I am definitely an advocate for Capitalism, a well regulated Capitalism could serve the country as well as a well regulated any other economic system.

Which is why I put parameters on the article by stating "most crime almost anywhere". I should have noted that my thoughts were in reaction to Trump's ordering of the NG to eliminate crime. Never gonna happen that way.

Any idea how difficult it is in Europe to own a gun (Besides Switzerland but that is a different story.) ? We rarely have gun deaths...

My wife and I watch a lot of murder mysteries. Foreign and older USA stuff. We always look at each other when the cop asks, "You have a license for that gun, rifle or weapon?"

Sad that we can't even outlaw assault weapons.

Per Issac Asimov.
I raised my kids with ‘violence is not an option’.
Peace ☮️

The mentally ill, larking teens, crimes of passion. Those are most of what we're seeing now.

Even the murder of the pretty Ukrainian lady that has the Right in a frenzy - that MFer is crazy. No amount of troops in the streets is going to stop a schizophrenic with a knife.

... that the faux-king fascist spent deploying the National Guard to LA., and I'm gonna guess that D.C. and Chicago will each cost more than that.

And enacting such policies is cheaper than the current incarceration route.

Food, water, housing, healthcare, education and a job.

I would add internet access.

What you’re talking about is building a socialist state. That what we should have. But a hundred years of anti-socialist/communist propaganda from the ruling class has made that all but impossible in this country.

. . .would be preferable to the "capitalism" we enjoy, I believe a well regulated Capitalism could provide for all of the conditions in the prime posting.

Eventually the ruling class takes all those regulations away.

(media and politicians) needs to go. Get the money and corruption out of politics, and yes, I agree that healthcare for all is essential, and ease of mental healthcare access is needed.