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Originally Posted by belsarius

But the opposite remains true. Are you comfortable telling the loved ones of people incarcerated that they now will serve a lot more time just in case they reoffend? The balancing act is always having to weigh the rights of the individual vs the chance at repeat offending. Sure there have been news stories about reoffenders but based on the statistics, it doesn't seem like violent crime is seriously on the rise or that these anecdotal occurrences are evidence of a larger systemic issue.

How many people were released and didn't reoffend? We already have trained people evaluating the convicts and making the determination about their risk to society.

Its nice to easy to say they are evaluating wrong, but unless we have some precognition there is no true way to get away from the case that sometimes people will be released and commit another crime.

The only way I see to to limit that, is to extend terms for everyone and unfairly punish the others, the silent majority, of people who serve their time.

Tell that to the residents of downtown Vancouver. I don't know what the stats are, but residents are certainly more on edge than they were several years ago. I don't recall as many violent stranger attacks in the city pre-covid.