"the lifetime risk of being wrongfully convicted to the risk of being a victim of a violent crime. The relative risk ratio appears to be about 30,000 to 1." If so, we are trying way too hard to prevent wrongful convictions, relative to deterring crime.https://reason.com/volokh/2018/11/01/how-often-are-innocent-persons-convicted?fbclid=IwAR2Ac4e_BxGO74jcBt0nuKawrtBHgmBeinlo2wcG7NLWNLMDhpriG_xxjnk …
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The immediate cost savings of ending polio vaccination would be far higher than the cost of treating the few extra cases of polio. The point is you need to actually crunch the numbers, not assume something that sounds small is not worth spending on.
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Punishing convicts doesn't achieve any goal. The goal is reducing crime. The evidence base for short-term prison sentences is weak at best at actually reducing lifetime crime of the criminal and it costs a huge amount of money.
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