The solution is to imprison criminals. The incarceration rate had been increasing for decades, and crime had been dropping for decades. It's not a difficult concept: some people are bad and should be removed from society; there's no "fixing" them.
That's how we get big government, by throwing away freedoms for safety. The people whom get to decide the law are also those whom decide to "defund the police". Some people are bad, many of them much higher up the ladder of society and get to make the law. That's why we are careful in deciding what crimes result in what outcomes and if those outcomes actually achieve what we want.
Prisons overwhelmingly are not a punishment, they're a hiring event. An expectation of life even. That doesn't stop the crime. A good way to stop a violent crime is for us to bring power back to the individual with strong self defense protections.
Actually, you skipped the stage where they came about. How come American cities have so many more violent criminals than other Western cities. The US already has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Because they might raise difficult questions. Also, for example, how would one suppress the Wild West mythos in Texas if you figured out it contributed to a small% increase in crime?
Because we had more 30 years ago and people are still alive who were born then. It's not necessarily important what we're doing right now, but you need to start by acknowledging how much better it is now than in 1990.
It's also good to compare to our neighbors south of us rather than across the ocean - we have a lot in common with them too and too often forget that.
