What a revealing statement. The social engineers on Capitol Hill couldn't leave a crime bill as just a crime bill. Instead, they played on the American people's fears about crime to sneak in a host of social programs. Tell your representatives in Congress that if we're gonna spend taxpayer money on crime, you want to know it's really going to combat crime. Tell them to earmark the funds for programs with a proven track record - alternative sentencing for nondangerous offenders, drug programs for addicts, and work programs that give prison inmates marketable skills that could keep them from falling back into a life of crime.
Social problems are important in their own right.
But lawmakers need to play it straight. Tell them to stop exploiting the issue, and give us a real crime bill.