Iceweasel
Diamond Member
The teacher's unions run public ed so it makes much more sense to clean that mess up instead of blaming society or rich people. Liberal policies are killing the middle class so I'd clean that up instead of blaming poverty. Liberalism creates crime and the last thing we need is more liberalism to fix it.What would the crime rate be if all those people weren't locked up?Locking up criminals absolutely makes the community safer. Obama wants to give all of his homies a get out of jail free card. Nothing more, nothing less. If the majority of felons in prison were white, he'd let them rot.
Does it?
The states with the highest homicide rates are 1) Louisiana, 2) Mississippi, 3) Missouri, 4) South Carolina, 5) Maryland
The states with the highest incarceration rates are 1) Louisiana, 2) Oklahoma, 3) Mississippi, 4) Alabama, 5) Georgia
So, number one and two for murder and numbers one and three for incarceration. Missouri is 14th, South Carolina 19th.
Does this look like more incarceration leads to less crime? Doesn't to me.
Well, my argument would be this:
Instead of people going for the "lock everyone up and we'll all be safer" kind of simplistic view, I would instead look at the real reasons for why people commit crimes and try and stop it. People are basically being born into crime, there's no hope left in certain communities. In others becoming a criminal is an actual career choice that gives far more advantages than trying to do it the legitimate way.
Why are so many more people being incarcerated in certain states than others? Well, you know that many of the states with high levels of prisoners have piss poor education, the rich don't care about the poor and do nothing to help people rise up out of the dirt.
You can see it within the US comparing different states, and you can see it comparing the US with Europe and Australia and places like that.
All it takes is people with brains. Instead people are getting all excited about someone like Trump who wants to build a damn wall, not fix education, not improve the lives of people, reduce crime and all of that, no, build a wall.