If you reduce the chance of going to jail for "non-violent" crimes such as burglary, you will get more such crimes, because burglars are neither deterred nor incarcerated.
When Martin recalled the June break-in at the Pine Tar Grill, what sticks in his mind wasn’t losing the computers or bobbleheads. Instead, it was a conversation he had with a police officer who viewed the footage of the break-in, who told him that he recognized the person in the video and that he had been arrested multiple times, Martin said.
“As a business owner,” Martin said, “that’s just really hard to hear.”
There is also the simple fact that people in custody are physically separated from potential victims. This very obviously works.