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Crime

-How much crime is drug or drug-related?

-Focus on prevention, not punishment

-Costly to prosecute, house, feed and care; also loss of potential tax revenues

-Better to have tax paying citizens than tax draining ones

-Funding for longer sentences should be attached to ballot measures

-Most victims would probably like crime not to happen than have person jailed

-Good economy providing good lives for people a good preventer

-Government fails it's citizens, the citizens fail the community

-Time in the corner (jail) can be useful, and provide a wake-up or time to detach

-Death penalty in Oregon a costly farce that hasn't involuntarily killed anyone

-Branding crimes as domestic terrorism is arguably unconstitutional

-Max Williams, Oregon's departing prison chief, won over skeptics

-Provide firefighter nets for suicidal subjects to give soft landing and prevent death