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Europol budget is 1/80 of FBI's
by lukasm 9y ago
Europol budget is 1/80 of FBI's
- Chris2048 9y agoFBI uses it's budget to spy on its own citizens (Prism) and interfere with political process. The budget is supposed to be small.
- coldtea 9y agoFBI's budget should have been 1/80 of FBI's too -- the US has 25% of the world's prison population, with just 4% of the world's population.
- Tepix 9y agoWow, they are doing such a great job obviously! /s
- jpatokal 9y agoThe FBI is only a small part of the US criminal justice system. 90% of US prisoners are held in state or local prison, not federal ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Adult_incarceration_statistics_for_the_USA._Timeline.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
- adventured 9y agoThe FBI isn't a large part of the reason the US has so many people in jail & prison. Mandatory minimum sentencing laws are about 3/4 of the cause, along with treating drug addiction as a crime instead of as strictly a health concern is most of the rest of that (with all of it broadly falling under the war on drugs). The get-tough-on-crime (by putting everyone in prison) era, during the Reagan / Bush / Clinton years, is the root.
- turk184 9y agoPlus, we have all now seen without any shadow of a doubt that the FBI mainly exists as a political enforcement apparatus and not so much as some kind of national investigative agency. Anything the FBI does that is not political looks like some afterthought to me.
- maxerickson 9y agoDo you think the FBI is really driving incarceration? Federal prisoners are only ~10% of the US prison population and tend to be convicted of more serious crimes.
- ekianjo 9y agoAnd what does Europol does anyway? Are they actively involved in high profile investigations?