Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution.

I’m glad these geniuses are here to tell us these things.

Last year, the US’s murder rate spiked by almost 30 percent. So far in 2021, murders are up nearly 10 percent in major cities. The 2020 increase alone is the largest percentage increase ever recorded in America — and a reversal from overall declines in murder rates since the 1990s.’

Gosh I wonder why that might be.

There remains one solution to the problem of violent crime that would doubtless be highly effective:

Small issue being that stargates to penal colonies on distant worlds remain firmly fictional. But if distant worlds are unattainable, it certainly seems that a penal colony in, say, Nunavut should be achievable.