City of Pittsburgh Man Shoots Police Officer - Depraved Indifference to Human Life

In the latest assault on civilization, an 18-year-old Homewood man is charged with shooting a Pittsburgh police officer after he approached a disturbance in which the accused shooter was allegedly involved.

The accused shooter has an arrest record dating to the age of 11 and had been released from prison three days earlier after having faced charges of aggravated assault and resisting arrest.

This infuriating incident sparks the following questions:

What is an eighteen-year-old man with a long and current arrest record doing on the streets?

Does this troublemaker have parents?  If so, where are they and what kind of upbringing have they provided to their son?  If the parents are not able to provide proper care for him, why is he not in a boot camp or some type of institution from which he cannot escape (jail would be a good choice) and in which he will not be able to be a threat to society?

What type of punishment will be dispensed to someone who could easily have killed their target?  What will be done to ensure public safety after he is again returned to the streets, most likely at a time that he will have retained the capacity to inflict a great deal of additional harm?

How many more of these incidents need to occur before society finds a way to get menaces off the streets?