I spent a good deal of time living in France and Italy and visited countless small towns and villages in both countries.
One thing I noticed is that there were no jails, prisons, or even police departments anywhere
to be found. Both of these things are rather recent developments throughout the West.
When you had both an ethnically homogenous culture that was also Catholic it was more moral and higher trust.
Criminals weren't coddled and justice was swift.
In these towns things had more or less remained the same for centuries. For generations the families were the same, there were bakeries, maybe a pharmacy, a florist, a couple cafes, butcher shop, and there were market days for
anything else.
In middle of each town was a Catholic church and everything centered around that.
Nearly every place you go in America there are overlapping layers of law enforcement departments:
local police, state police, special units, FBI, Sheriff depts, DEA, etc.
Cities have to build and staff more and more facilities to incarcerate more people and in places like
Chicago they release violent repeat felons over and over due to Soros funded judges, district attorneys
and budget restraints.
We have city, state, and federal legislators making new laws every day to add to the tens of thousands
existing laws...yet we are less safe than ever. In addition to our own homegrown criminals we have imported
the worst criminals from other nations.
Fr. Chazal said we must face the reality that live in a post Christian culture but in some respects it's worse than a pagan culture because ours retains the pretense of remaining Christian.