The brutal stabbing of a woman on a public train by a career criminal with 14 prior arrests serves as yet another reminder of the need to return to a decades-old law enforcement strategy that punishes small crimes to prevent more serious ones. As most readers will well know by now, on August 22, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee named Iryna Zarutska boarded a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a shift at a local pizza parlor. Moments after she sat down, Decarlos Brown, Jr., who was sitting behind her, pulled out a knife and slit her throat. Surveillance…

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