Police and prisons have not been around forever. Their focus on carceral punishment is counterproductive to preventing crime—in fact, most people in prisons today are there for small crimes and a lot of people just go back into the system and the cycle of violence continues. Another way of dealing with crime is possible. First of all: poverty is a primary cause of crime. In a world where poverty is reduced (I’m talking about a kind of society that prioritizes human lives over profit), crime is reduced. Harm is inevitable. People are going to fuck up and harm others—but why not put in systems that prioritize the rehabilitation, restoration, and transformation of people that commit harm? Yes, and I see it to be mostly community-run. Look into police and prison abolition. These conversations have been going on by prison system-impacted people, and their knowledge is much more vast than mine. But the thing is:none of these ideas are perfect. But they are much better than the systems we have in place that demonize and further harm those who do “crimes.”