“We may think we can prosecute and incarcerate our way to a less violent society, but it is going to take more than that.”

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said that Tuesday in his speech to the Lake County Bar Association at Greenbelt Forest Preserve.

Fitzgerald said public corruption gets all the headlines — Tony Rezko, former Chicago Ald. Edward Vrdolyak and Republican power broker Bill Cellini — and violence gets far fewer.

“People are tired of worrying about guns, gangs and drugs, but people are imprisoned in their own homes, afraid to go out even in the middle of the afternoon,” he said.