Crime could be reduced by rewarding good behavior with a bonus. For example, if you earn $1,000, $125 would be added to your income as a bonus under the principle that good behavior will result in a bonus worth 1/8 of your income. Continuing with the example, $1,125 per week for a year would be $58,500 that includes a bonus of $6,500 for the year. Or for 1/16 of your income, bonus money would be $62.50 per $1,000 and would equal $1,062.50 per week and $55,250 for the year with a bonus of $3,250 for the year.
This bonus money would be backed by good behavior. It would be paid when crime goes down because that causes costs to go down and saves businesses and cities lots of money. So then 80%-90% of the money saved goes back to the people with good behavior. Also, 10%-20% of the money saved goes to the City or County. If there is no shop lifting, grand theft auto, house burglaries, or bank robberies, the cost of everything would drop approximately 20 percent or more. Stealing is bad for the economy because taxes pay for the 1 in 100 items that get stolen. It costs money to process someone in prison. It is unrealistic to not have any crime at all so to cut the crime by even 40%, the savings could potentially be 8% and pay for the 1/16 of income bonus money to the people with good behavior. Eventually good behavior might result in 80% lower crime so that the even higher savings could pay for the 1/8 of income bonus money to people with good behavior.
Any arrest suspends someone temporarily from Bonus Money Backed by Good Behavior. It is the same % saved for everyone based on lowering crime on an annual review. Congress at the federal level would decide the % saved to go back to the people. The other thing is this is not based on taxes; it is based on how much money is saved by lower crime.
So my idea is to have both 1.) BONUS MONEY BACKED BY RESPECTABLE BEHAVIOR and 2.) The 3,007 Sheriffs in the Country would appoint the Federal District Judges in order to encourage more respect for law enforcement.
