> aren't motivated to do crime due to suffering

Good thing I never said that!

> Oh, and the only solution is more welfare

Nor that!

I said that for many people crime is a rational approach to more prosperity. That doesn't mean folks are near starvation and have no other choices, it just means that criminal options may be more appealing than other ones. If you create accessible, non criminal pathways to prosperity, crime decreases..if you remove them, it goes up.