What kind of alternative do you imagine? A world where the police arrest every criminal once and they're done?
There are few jobs on Earth where you fix everything once and it stays fixed forever. Almost everyone is working to keep a type of entropy at bay. Doctors help people get healthy who get sick again, I fix outages that will get caused again, and police need to arrest people who do crimes and will get released again.
I expect there to be a consequence given for breaking the law. That's the "radical" alternative I imagine. Instead we get a release directly after offense.
If you go see a doctor to help you get healthy, and you feel better right after, but the very next day you're sick with the same condition, do you think the doctor really helped?
There are few jobs on Earth where you fix everything once and it stays fixed forever. Almost everyone is working to keep a type of entropy at bay. Doctors help people get healthy who get sick again, I fix outages that will get caused again, and police need to arrest people who do crimes and will get released again.