It's an industry that creates job. We build the jails and the space. In fact, I'd bet the offset financially could be found in stripping the entitlement spending and subsidies that drift into the inner city anyway.
CRIME is a direct result of drug decriminalization. Drugs, especially in the cities, take much needed resources away from families, debilitate job applicatants ability to work, limit earning potential and on the other side create a black market w much violence.
We have drug laws Circa early 20th century because we had a mass migration from the farm to the cities. People and families no longer owned property or worked for themselves but instead became renters and wage laborers and drug use skyrocketed...but it's effects now negatively impacted the close knit high density population where they lived and also US production ability in a macro sense.
That is why they are illegal.
To listen to Democrats discuss crime and solutions is profoundly stupid- their policies are the cause of the epidemic of crime we are seeking and the cyclical generational poverty we are seeing, the failed urban environment we are seeing and the false hope given to worthless poor people by promoting free money, redistribution, reparations, welfare, etc
It's got to stop- lock up the druggies. Harsh law & order w drugs & theft will put these types of people away and the uncontrollable violence will recede