We've allowed a narrative to become entrenched in this country over the last number of years that is an either-or. If we just arrest and incarcerate, that's bad. Then we say it has to be rehabilitation only, and we have to get to the underlying systemic issues that contribute to the crime. That's led to something that somebody else asked in terms of what has changed. We need to get back to both. It has to be both. We have to be able to....
People say all the time that we can't arrest our way out of this problem. I actually say that we can. We can arrest, because then we can connect people to services. We can do other things. Arrests shouldn't just mean incarceration.
The problem is that we have focused on one or the other, either-or. What we need is both.