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You hit on so many important issues but I’d like to focus on one, the coddling of criminals, especially the young ones.

I was a big troublemaker during my teens over 50 years ago. Living in NYC, my wrist was slapped more than a few times. At age 16, I finally came before a wise judge who sent me away for 3 years for a crime, joyriding in a car I didn’t own, that would almost certainly get a wrist slap today. I thank God for that judge every day! He started me on a path to change my life. It didn’t happen immediately but, within a year of being released, I was drug free and sober! This HS dropout recently retired near the top of my chosen field in IT.

I believe that allowing the young criminals to skate does them no favors. Coddled young criminals often escalate to become hardened criminals with a much more difficult path to success in life.

In other words, “Spare the rod, spoil the man-child.” I suppose these days I should add woman-child but I’m just not that woke!