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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes you can, look at El Salvador after their mass incarceration campaign to break the back of gangs. Their country has improved dramatically:

[img]https://i.redd.it/mmrgyh9c9woa1.png[/img]

When you lockup criminals, crime goes down. Really common sense logic. [/quote]

No due process and many innocent people swept up in and jailed. I don’t think this is the model we want to follow. [/quote]

Suggest this Daily (NYT) podcast episode on the El Salvador experience.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ozc2iXnE1Z4bLF6k2QABa?si=NDRpJa-JQO2c1EOxxSfmRw

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Boo hoo.

El Salvador’s problem was so bad with crime and violence that society could not function.  If you have to crack a few eggs to improve the vast majority of law abiding citizens’ lives in El Salvador so what?  No solution is perfect, but what El Salvador did has once allowed a basic civil society to exist.  Before gangs would rape and kill your whole family for looking at them the wrong way.  It was ungovernable.  Bleeding hearts should have been forced to live in El Salvador before and after. [/quote]

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