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Tough on crime as well as the causes of crime. Yes.

Criminal justice and social justice are inextricably linked. You can't have one without the other. Not in any meaningful way.

Better policing with adequate numbers of *professionals* doing that policing. Criminals appropriately sentenced and then actually serving those sentences. Equal opportunity promoted through 'opportunity pluralism' in education and an overall government 'policy' of promoting the common good of the ordinary everyday people of this country ahead of the well-moneyed special interests, with the realization that all *outcomes* will never be *equal*, since that would require a perfect world. And that ain't where we're livin'.

And maybe a recognition that 'government' can't solve absolutely every problem of our society, nor should it be expected to. There are a few things we still need to do for ourselves.

Impossible? No. Likely? Not very. At least until the political will develops in the electorate to put people in positions of power who will work on solving these problems that is to the benefit of us all, and not to themselves personally as far as their careers, political or otherwise, are concerned. And along with that, there must be a will within our society to pay the cost for the solutions, both in dollars and in shirking the hyper-partisan tribalism that assuages the egos of those who carry grievances - real or imagined - that stand so solidly in the way of anything resembling real and effective progress on more *justice* in every facet in our society.

I wish us all good luck with that.

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