"Based on your own family's experience, what do you think we should do to " reduce crime in America ?

by making everything less expensive so people don't have to steal.

by caring about other people and showing as much love as you can.

I like the 3 strikes and youre out rule. I also believe in bringing back the death penalty, but not have guys sitting alive on death row for years during appeal after appeal. Hang them or get the firing squad. Also there are a lot of jobs already. We're in a great economy right now, and theres still crime. Some people just really dont' want to work, or they don't want to do an honest days work. They dont' want to start at the bottom. How can we teach our kids more about love when a large majority of children are being raised in single parent families where the parent has barely any time to do any quality parenting. This is a result of premarital sex and men who don't take responsibility for their offspring, and women who sleep around but don't use protection.

My family has never experienced this and I pray we never do. One, people have to accountable for what they do. Two, parents need to start being parents to the children and not best friends. Third, The court systems have to be firmer in there punishments, make it so a person does not want to come back to jail. It is to be a jail, not a hotel with fringe benefits. Four, We need to bring God back.

Go back to when you did something wrong ; mom or dad could discipline their children the way they saw fit instead of being afraid that social service will come and take your kids cuz you spanked them.

More discipline.Consquences .

Many, many crimes are rooted in drug addiction. To that end we need to redouble our efforts to rehab the addict and make him a valuable part of society.