A fellow whose sobriquet is “Adam” holds these thoughts to be true regarding mass incarceration and the reduction in violent crime.
Blockquote One of the more depressing realizations of recent years appears to be:
#1 The historic drop in violent crime from 1990 to 2019 was indeed caused directly by mass incarceration.
#2 Nothing else seems to work.
Clinton was right.
I should have said 1994. But this is a serious thing. The post-1994 tough on crime era did directly save many innocent lives.
There are a lot of women and children who did not die horrible violent deaths because the would be perps were in prison.
I think bail reform is the most misguided.
Once an offender is in a crime cycle, they tend to commit crimes almost daily until captured.
The idea that they should be arrested and immediately released is insane.
I don’t like mass incarceration in theory. At all.
But maybe the only altenative is an armed population, with a consistent policy of respect and support for individuals who shoot a criminal.
Vs. treating the self-defender as a criminal, which is what often happens in reality
Another thing certain states could do is pass really “bright line” laws on defense of self and others.
Not arm chair quarterback scrutiny of what innocent people do in the moment of threat by biased DAs.
If you shoot someone in act of felony, no further inquiry.
A lot of replies bringing up lead paint, abortion, and so forth.
Except they didn’t reintroduce lead paint around 2019.
Violent crime went up like a rocket precisely correlated with the recent criminal justice reforms.
If an experiment change status quo policy to release large numbers of criminals, and crime immediately goes up after being down for decades . . .
I think the default assumption is that the experiment caused it.
Burden of proof is on the proponents of the experiment.
