Video Shows Woman, 63, Dragged By Car After Purse-Snatching

The rate of crime happening in New Haven and Hamden and in many other cities and towns in CT involving stolen cars is growing. This is a terrible incident, thank goodness the victim wasn't seriously hurt. This could be my mother or your mother or your grandmother your aunt or your sister or you. The court system in CT needs to treat all carjackings and muggings as violent crimes, and car thefts as serious crimes and there should be no more releasing young suspects to their guardian only to reoffend. Young people under age 18 who commit these crimes need to be put in supervised secure living facilities with intensive therapy and counseling to treat their behavior and the underlying causes of their actions.

Super markets and big chains like Stop & Shop need to care for their customers by adding working officers outside (as well as inside) their stores. If the public is afraid to shop because of their safety the stores will end up closing so they need to take action. Make the investment.

Placing people in the criminal system that is unjust is not the only answer.
Crime is multilayered, multidimensional and complex and putting people behind bars the way we do in the US is not going to solve the issue.
More policing is not going to solve the issue.
Here's a possibility - restorative justice...
"Although most countries recognize juvenile offenders should be treated differently under criminal law, Norway and the United States take two distinctive approaches in sentencing juveniles: the restorative justice approach and the "tough on crime" approach.[1] The difference between the two systems can largely be attributed to the influence of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Norway's system.[2] The Convention on the Rights of the Child, which promotes a child-friendly system that emphasizes rehabilitative promise in juvenile offenders,[3] has been adopted by Norway and 195 other countries.[4] The United States is one of only two countries in the world that has not adopted this Convention.[5] Therefore, it is no surprise that the United States takes a more punitive approach to juvenile justice.[6] As a result of the United States' punitive approach, some children, even those capable of rehabilitation, will remain in prison for the duration of their lifetime.[7] By replacing its punitive system with a restorative system consistent with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United States can give juvenile offenders a second chance. "

Norway takes a similar approach to adults with the restorative justice with documented results. In the U.S.
A handful of papers use similar random judge assignment designs in the US as we do for Norway. These studies find either no effect or the opposite result, namely that incarceration results in higher recidivism and worse labour market outcomes.