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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is because violent repeat offenders are not prosecuted and if they are it us too light of a sentence before they are released from jail.

There needs to be mandatory incarceration of mentally ill who are convicted or crimes it found not mentally competent.

Reed’s criminal record includes nearly 50 prior arrests since 2017, with past convictions for arson, aggravated battery, and assault. [/quote]

THIS. All of it. [/quote]

Throwing people in jail seems to have done a great job of preventing crime. /s

We have the highest number of incarcerated people in the world and yet still plenty of crime. Throwing people in jail is not working. Maybe fix the actual problems instead of throwing people away. [/quote]

Doesn’t matter what the actual number is or the percentage - It’s a big country!  Let’s try for once to actually arrest offenders and keep all criminals in jail, and you’ll finally see law abiding people breathing freely without the relentless crime around them.   [/quote]
Why doesn’t the percentage matter? If we incarcerate a bigger percentage of our population than most other places (which we do), it suggests that’s not the solving the problem.[/quote]

No, it doesn’t.  Are you comparing our arrest percentage of the population to…. Denmark?  Saudi Arabia?   It’s irrelevant.   I’m not sure what conclusion you want to draw by this comparison.  This is the United States, and we are different. [/quote]

You seem to fundamentally misunderstand how percentages work. That's literally how you would compare populations od different sizes. And the US does in fact incarcerate more people than any other Western democracy. Why? Jailing people is not preventing or eliminating crime. You know what has been shown to lower crime rates? Education. Eliminating food insecurity. Eliminating housing insecurity.

I mean, why is it so hard to understand that most people, when they have what they need, they are able to function within society. There will always be people who cannot, and we need to figure out what to do about those people, but a lot of people behind bars are simply poor.

So many corporations depend on prison slave labor, not to mention an entire industry of for-profit prisons who have a financial stake in making you morons believe crime is worse than ever, and that the solution to crime is more incarceration, when we have known for some time that that is simply not true. [/quote]

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