The United States incarcerates an absolutely staggering amount of its citizens for crimes so committed, most of which serves no real good purpose, akin to the endless and futile "drug war", which keeps on keeping on. Those that are dim-witted, but apparently not cognizant of such, are the very ones, that keep doubling-down on more and more punishment for that which keeps on ever expanding, encouraging therefore the powers-to-be to add on even more dubious so-called crimes into their punishment book, so as to stay ever busy.
It is regrettable, that the United States does not seem to recognize the truth, that higher crime rates, to a very large extent, occurs in those societies that are inherently unequal in the quality of life, so provided to its citizens; and of which, those that have little or no opportunity, are invariably caught within a cycle of despair and poverty, of which because they are given little or no hope to ever successfully extricate themselves from, are going to therefore breed citizens that aren't going to be adherents to the orthodoxy so imposed upon them, because they know the hypocrisy of such.
So too, when quotas, official or non-official, are imposed upon the policing arm of the state, and thereby are part and parcel of that justice system so enabled, than all those that enforce the muscle of that policing, are going to, more times than not, flex their muscle not against those that have the means to fight back, through money, connections, power, and cleverness; but rather will instead inflict their dominance against those that are effectively powerless, voiceless, and do not fit the traditional depiction of what visually is considered to be a good citizen.
Not too surprisingly, none of this ever works in either bringing fair justice to society, nor in eradicating criminal activity, for all those that have nothing and thereby have nothing to lose, will often have a very strong inclination to fight back against the very system, which has criminalize their behavior, which to a very large extent, could be considered to be explainable and even rational, due to the unjust circumstances so imposed upon them. In fact, all of this combined, strongly suggests that in order for those that govern this nation, to maintain their constant surveillance of the population, and thereby their continuous and routine violation of Constitutional rights of its citizens, need to impress upon that population, over and over again, just how dangerous civil society is, and thereby to make that public to believe that some loss of freedom and autonomy, is well worth sacrificing, in order to be safe -- thereby essentially sanctifying law and order.
For those that would like to see a more civil society, and hence far less crime, the most obvious way to do such, is to rightly return to all of its citizens, their unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; in addition to structuring that society in which a fair and progressive tax system would be successfully imposed upon the wealthy so that they would subsequently contribute their fair share to that society which help to make them, wealthy; and of which, each citizen, no matter their place of residence, would be fairly entitled to a good education, good healthcare, equal justice, and fair opportunity. That would be called good governance, and good governance drives out crime.