That would resolve the spying cost, but not the punishment cost. My go-to example here is heroin: class A drug in the UK, 7 years for possession and life for supply, so far as I can see nobody has anything good to say about it, and it has around three times as many users in the UK as the entire UK prison population.
Could implement punishment for that specific crime, at huge cost, but you can't expand that to all crimes. Well, I suppose you could try feudalism mark 2 where most of the population is determined to be criminal and therefore spends their life "having to work of their debt to society", but then you have to find out the hard way why we stopped doing feudalism mark 1.
Could implement punishment for that specific crime, at huge cost, but you can't expand that to all crimes. Well, I suppose you could try feudalism mark 2 where most of the population is determined to be criminal and therefore spends their life "having to work of their debt to society", but then you have to find out the hard way why we stopped doing feudalism mark 1.