incarcerated population corroborates this pretty elegantly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States …pic.twitter.com/h3S59wShg7
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incarcerated population corroborates this pretty elegantly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States …pic.twitter.com/h3S59wShg7
Hmm is this the state hollowing out or metastasizing tho Maybe both
Part of it is that society went bugnuts back in the late 60's/early 70's and "tough on crime" got a major boost, resulting in sentencing getting WAY harsher in the 80's and continuing to date with few reversals.
There is an article somewhere online about Joanne Chesimard and it mentions people shooting state troopers with shotguns and getting 2 months in jail in the 70's and citing it as an example of why harsh sentencing was imposed by Congress when the courts wouldn't do it.
that seems like a less useful example because it is both reasonable and NOT at all what is mostly responsible for the exponential rise in incarcerated population (it's like 95% drug convictions)
The mandatory sentencing stuff has many causes, but IMO it was a general feeling of lawlessness and people getting slaps on the wrist for serious crimes that motivated a lot of it.
Then after that, toughen up the drug laws and boom, a felony's a felony and drug convictions are SO easy to get and so, so common. Violent crime has always been relatively rare, but trying to deal with it caught the drug dealers as well.
a radical legal theory: you can't actually prevent violent crime through ANY legislative intervention at all. it's a fool's errand and causes extreme harm to impoverished communities. real remedies include improvements to economic opportunity especially internal migration.
doubt this obtains unfortunately some people really are fucking crazy plenty of improvements to be had on the margin you suggest, I just dont think they extend across the entire domain
Although if you are right theres no harm in complete weapons deregulation right? 
much less harm than many imagine there would be. one of the few NRA talking points that actually holds up to scrutiny is that career criminals don't care about getting legal weapons.
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