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In reply to the discussion: A depraved world: FBI agents wage a stressful battle against child pornography [View all]davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Everyone applauds and cheers when you arrest someone that had child porn on their computer. And that's great... you get the pervert in jail. But where is the end game? What did you accomplish? The guy that created that child porn is still out there creating more. And he won't care that one of the end users are in jail. There are millions of pedophiles in the world just like him.
I understand the philosophy of "eliminating demand." The problem is that it just doesn't work. It has never worked. Attempting to win the drug war by eliminating demand has massively failed. Attempting to end prostitution by eliminating demand has failed. Attempting to stop child porn by eliminating demand has failed. This is like trying to get rid of a cockroach infestation by killing the roaches as you see them. You will never get rid of them this way. You have to forget about these roaches that show themselves and go for the nest.
Just like in the drug war. We are never going to win by arresting pot heads. We are not going to win by arresting the coke head. You have to get the dealers, the traffickers, the producers, and the cartels. If you can't or don't want to go that far...then you admit defeat. You lose the battle. Simple as that. You cannot win this any other way.
Same with child porn. We will never win if all law enforcement does is spend every waking minute on arresting downloaders.
The police and justice system in this country have no common sense. It has become much too mechanical. It lacks any ability to adjust to a changing world. The criminals will change and modify their ways continuously to always stay a step ahead. And our system always seems to be miles behind.
We have the largest and most expensive prison population in the world and absolutely nothing to show for it.