If the occurrence of criminal activity has decreased substantially, you might intuit that to mean less people are being locked up. Nope #USA
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Point being: the incarceration rate has no necessary connection with the crime rate. Incarceration is driven by other (political) factors.
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Pro-incarceration advocates and/or trolls, please note: "No necessary connection" doesn't mean the same thing as "no connection whatever"
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@sometypeofjames "Tough-on-crime sentencing has increased penalties" is a factor cited by the OH government's report.
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@sometypeofjames Agree with that. But violent crime also fell in OH between 2005 and 2015.
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@mtracey that means that locking up the criminals worked? -
@nicholasvirzi No, it means that too many people are being needlessly incarcerated despite a declining public safety need.
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@mtracey do they reference a breakdown of crime types/incarcerations? 'Overall' is a misleading term sometimes. -
@9mmbetterthan45 "Overall" is but one metric for measuring the incidence of crime. - 1 more reply
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@mtracey "even as" That's a real head scratcher, there.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mtracey Gee, if the overall crime rate fell by 15% at the same time we locked up 15% more criminals, think that could have an effect? -
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@mtracey Kind of like how the violent crime rate for the whole USA started to fall once we started locking up more criminals in the 1990s. - 4 more replies
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