People desperately want a extra considerate dialogue about our response to crime. Folks have had sufficient of the demagoguery and divisive partisan assaults that dominate the controversy and obscure the problems.

Like most of us, I’m involved about crime. Certainly one of authorities’s most necessary roles is to make sure public security. I’ve been concerned in efforts to reform the criminal-justice system for the greater than 30 years I’ve been a philanthropist.