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This is hard to answer since everyone will answer according to their political biases. So let's try to break it down by major groups of viewpoints:

Conservative View

Liberal policies such as welfare create an entitlement mentality in people and less of a desire to work in honest ways that don't involve criminal activities. So everyone should be expected to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and succeed. Those who fail and resort to criminality should be separated from others and punished. There should be minimal restrictions since excessive regulation and taxation makes it harder for common people to get ahead.

Liberal View

Conservative policies like allowing everyone to own guns contribute to gun violence. A lot of crime happens due to corporate greed and the exploitation of the common people. When there is no healthcare, few jobs, and only expensive places to live, people are more likely to turn to crime.

Libertarian View

The role of the government should be mainly to maintain infrastructure and protect people from others. Most laws which exist now need to be abolished, and a lot of crimes will drop just by being redefined as legal behaviors. Sure, that will cause some chaos, civil unrest, and even anarchy at first, but it soon all dies down after the irresponsible people do themselves in or act in ways that cause others to do them in. Because guns would be completely legal, everyone would soon learn to treat everyone with respect and not harm other people or take what is not theirs. Everyone would be on equal footing, and you wouldn't know who would retaliate with violence or not. So you'd try to mind your manners and live an honest life.

Drug use has always been a part of history, and it was more prominent in the 1880's than in the 1980's. If drugs were completely legal, the prices would drop to the bottom, and you could get a 2 pound bag of cocaine for about the same price as 5 pounds of sugar. There would be less of an addiction problem since the worst of the addicts will finally be able to afford lethal doses. The poor addicts would be able to maintain their habits without committing crimes. Drug possession and dealing would not be crimes, thus the number of crimes on paper would be much less. Yes, even children would be able to walk into a pharmacy and buy nearly any drug or medication. However, parents would know to make their children stay away from the drugs and medicines, or they would find themselves without offspring.

On discrimination, people should be free to self-segregate or integrate as they prefer, as long as it is voluntary. Being forced to mingle with dissimilar people with different values and understandings leads to violence. If a place wants to exclude certain people, they should have that right. However, if others wish to boycott or picket that business, they should have that right too. So if the place with offensive values has no customers, they go out of business. There is no need for lawsuits since people will not shop at places where they are excluded or deeply offended.

Communist View

A free market system and capitalism is what is bad, and thus, the government should own everything to place everyone on equal footing under the law. Thus nobody can take anything from others if the government owns it. Overpopulation is a major source of crime, so strict population policies are put in place, including 1 or 2 child policies, mandatory abortion and sterilization, etc. Public order would be maintained by controlling the media and by encouraging snitching. So everyone would know to be on best behavior since they'd know Big Brother is watching and wouldn't know who all is acting on behalf of Big Brother.

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