Investigators search for Means, Motive & Opportunity when they try to determine "Who" committed a crime.  They know that they should answer the critical question Why? Most discussions about crime fighting eventually get around to this question just before they bog down on the idea that it is going to take too long to solve the problem.

Sociologists might have a better explanation as to why we are experiencing escallating rates of cirme but my nose tells me the following factors play a large role:

1. Parenting
2. Schools
3. Jobs
4. Money
5. Expectations
6. Recreation
7. Entitlement
8. Role Models
9. Hope
10. Opportunity
11. Parenting

Police might be underpaid, but increasing their salaries or even their numbers aren't going to make these problems go away. A "Sea Change" in our society is the very least that will be needed. One approach is a more authoritarian approach, with cops on every block, the National Guard, surveillance cameras and thought control. This seems to be where we are headed and I don't like it. Take everything you have heard about Big Brother,  Soylent Green and a Clockwork Orange and decide if that will make this a better place in which to live.

Solving the crime problem can take many forms. Read a bit of the following to understand where I am conimg from.