No, unlike you, I've actually done some reading about it. The surefire way to decrease crime (as demonstrated from 1992- recently) is to incarcerate or otherwise immobilize the 1-2% of the population that commits serious crimes and to not release them until they are too old to go back to it. As of now, there is only about 1.3 million people in prison in the US, out of a population of 330 million, so that amount would need to double, at least, to see crime brought down. It would be possible to have Japanese levels of safety in this country.
I for one think that the rate is probably higher than the 1-2%, it might be closer to 5%, but there's zero reason that people who commit serious crimes can't essentially live in penal colonies, work, make money, buy things on Amazon, etc. They just need to be tightly supervised and walled off from the rest of the population.