Alabama suffers crime because of drugs, it punishes people because of drugs, it builds billion dollar prisons and signs billion dollar prison healthcare deals because its justice system is overrun by the consequences of drugs. It forces people to spend lifetimes in prison because of drugs, it uses the presence of drugs as an excuse to put addicts back inside, and if it put a fraction of the effort into rehabilitation it would save more people, more money and more families.
It’s just that they don’t mean “crime” so much as “criminals” and then proceed to define “criminals” as “unpaid laborers” (aka slaves).
And the concept that Alabama is tough on its slaves is not a new one.
Don’t let anyone confuse you, almost anytime someone says they’re “tough on crime,” what they mean is that they’re “tough on criminals and have an extra inky ‘criminal’ stamp.”
Batman is good because he’d be happy to hang up his cape because Gotham was successfully cleaned up. ACAB because if arrest numbers start going down, then they have to invent more criminals.