I understand the issues with detaining them but I will never understand how letting these people rot on the streets was the option society went with

You're right but 3 months for seriously injuring someone and some sort of arson? You still need a moderate punishment to make it work, I don't think a slap on the wrist for violent crime makes sense.

I think seriously injuring someone actually is an indicator of some bad things because most road rage/bar fights don't end in an arrest and sentence.

Why would it change anything if he was arrested for a bar fight or road rage? Those are both pretty bad

When people vastly over estimate how many other people live in an area it's usually because there's a lot of traffic. Cars are too big for everyone to have one and drive to everything once you get to any sort of density, and they just keep getting bigger.

A lie that unbelievable is a big "fuck you" to the city on top of everything else he's (not) doing