Study from the US DOJ says the exact opposite.https://nicic.gov/what-caused-crime-decline …
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First of all that’s not from the DOJ, it’s just linked to there and actually from the very left lib Brennan Center for Justice. Second, there is actually a litany of evidence that locking up criminals did the bulk of the work, but it’s well summed up in this simple graphpic.twitter.com/c15igBNuQ9
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Can't even read that, but: "A 2015 Brennan Center for Justice report found that increased incarceration was responsible for about 5% of the crime drop in the United States during the 1990s, and for essentially none of the crime drop there since 2000"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_drop
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Look man I do not have time to read and refute w/e communist propaganda the Brennan center is putting out, but the overall situation rly isn’t that complicated: a small minority of very antisocial people are responsible for most crime, a larger, but still minority population is
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Generally good, but under circumstances where there is general lawlessness and little incentive to obey the law themselves also become criminals. You can address most of that problem by locking up that very small group of very antisocial ppl and throwing away the key.
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I even put the summary in tweet form for you. This is a well-studied issue. The US has 25% of the entire world's prison population. We're far from locking up a small group. If more prisoners meant less crime we'd of been there long time ago. Many many lives needlessly destroyed.
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Most ppl in prison are there for serious crimes, most are guilty. The US is also unique in having the 1st world state capacity to pros & lock up large numbers of people & a small minority (tho still large in absolute numbers) who are inclined to commit crime at a 3rd world level
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We lock up the largest number of prisoners in both per capita and gross numbers. We decide what is a crime and what is not. The conditions which create crime are policy choices. Locking people up does not change those things.
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46% of people incarcerated are there for drug offenses. 3% for Homicide, Aggravated Assault, and Kidnapping Offenses. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_offenses.jsp …
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Wrong. That’s just federal prisons. If you include states it’s a significantly smaller fraction for drugs and a significantly greater percentage there for violent crimes and property crimespic.twitter.com/lMEoqapAPm
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Just found that. You should link to the site, there's a lot of good info there. Looks like at the state level it's 1 in 5 for drug offenses. 74% of people in jails haven't been convicted of a crime. Anyhow, this should be shared far and wide.https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html …
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That’s b/c jail is literally for pre-trial detention.
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Also it’s closer to 1 in 7 for all drug offenses, but the vast majority of those are not simple possession. Barely over 3% of people are in for simple drug possession in state prisons. The narrative that these are all peaceful pot smokers is a lie
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