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Simpel solution here. Let go all the drug offenders and you will drop the prison population by atleast 75%. If you released just those in prison with Marijuana charges it would decrease about 65%
"USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world"
Good! That's what makes the U.S. the greatest nation on earth.......law and order. The U.S. is the most desirable place to live in the world!
That must be why people from Canada and Western Europe and Australia and New Zealand are just breaking down doors to get here.
This just in. They aren't. They are safer countries, with better health and better health care, lower crime rates, and longer life spans. Why on earth would they want to come here?
Bureau of Justice Statistics Homicide Trends in the United States: (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/totalstab.htm - broken link)
Thanks to all the great prisons, our homicide rates are lower now than even the mid 1960s, they haven't been so low in many years.
Actually not because of our prisons. Most likely due to the great economic expansion spanning nearly two decades (the blips in the early 1990s and early 2000s not withstanding).
Actually not because of our prisons. Most likely due to the great economic expansion spanning nearly two decades (the blips in the early 1990s and early 2000s not withstanding).
Crimes of all kinds are down because of more prisons. Laws like 3 strikes and so on that keep the habitual murderers and thugs off the streets.
How can you guys actually complain about much improved homicide trends? Our cities are considerably safer than they were before all these prisons were built.
Not only that - because of the wonderful prisons and effective law enforcement we have, a city like El Paso in the USA is one of the world's safest cities with something like 3 murders a year while right across a tiny river from it is one of the world's most violent deadly cities with well over 2000 murders so far this year, hitman and murderers, carjackers, rapists, drug dealers and drug smugglers roam free there in that city.
I posted this map of state-by-state homicide rates in another thread, but it might also apply here:
DC, one of the most liberal areas in the United States has a skyrocketing murder rate.
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