If you hit a cop with a flagpole..you are a violent criminal. Not all those folks were trespassers, or are you just ignoring the multiple violent felonies being charged..and indeed..free to view anytime you want on any number of platforms?
Nobody is 'soft' on real criminals. When you say it though..I can't help but feel that, for you, it's just code for black people.
This country, the USA, incarcerates more people, by percentage of population..than any other country in the world. Bar none. China has the raw numbers...but we win the percentage race~
Soft on crime....too funny!
en.wikipedia.org
While the United States represents about 4.2 percent of the world's population,[3] it houses around 20 percent of the world's prisoners.[4] Corrections (which includes prisons, jails, probation, and parole) cost around $74 billion in 2007 according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).[5][6] According to the Justice Expenditures and Employment in the United States, 2017 report release by BJS, it's estimated that county and municipal governments spent roughly US$30 billion on corrections in 2017.[7][8]
As of their March 2020 publication, the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-profit organization for decarceration, estimated that in the United States, about 2.3 million people were or are currently incarcerated. Of those who were incarcerated, 1,291,000 people were in state prison, 631,000 in local jails, 226,000 in federal prisons, 44,000 in youth correctional facilities, 42,000 in immigration detention camps, 22,000 in involuntary commitment, 11,000 in territorial prisons, 2,500 in Indian Country jails, and 1,300 in United States military prisons.[9]