We are often told, by law professors among others, that community release with close monitoring is more humane than incarceration, less expensive, and equally effective.
It's simply false. The question is not whether it can be counted upon to work. The question is who pays the price when it doesn't.
This story gives us a glimpse of a thoroughly unfunny answer.
Preventable violent crime against women, or against anyone, is a blight. Q: Where is the outrage over this, and who is going to take responsibility? A: Nowhere and no one. And we all know it.
For a generation, we have known how to cut back on violent crime. If we forget now, those least able to fight back will be the first to pay the price -- although sooner or later, we all will.
Sickening.
Sickening does not even begin to describe it.
We literally have people proposing policies that they know will result in more victims of violence, and doing so in the name of "compassion."