Comment by sdkfjhdsjk

Now you're getting it. You have exactly identified the problem.

Instead of identifying and addressing the real problems--mass unemployment, homelessness, hopelessness--your dystopic "solution" is simply more and bigger jails, more and better armed cops with surveillance cameras attached, more laws, more weapons, more bondage and discipline, more "you will do what I say or else."

Doesn't work. Never works.

Read the essay "Fate of Empires" by Sir John Glubb to see how things this time are not in fact any different than what came before.