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As horrible as this sounds to say, I think there are a lot of political type people at the local, state and federal level who get a lot of votes by locking up c
by bilbo0s 8y ago
As horrible as this sounds to say, I think there are a lot of political type people at the local, state and federal level who get a lot of votes by locking up certain demographics of males. I mean those votes translate into money, power, even both a lot of times. So I don't see this sort of thing stopping anytime soon. The incentive to participate and go along with this activity is just too large in our system.
It's kind of a pipe dream to think that actual guilt should be the deciding factor in these things when there is such a large payout for what I call electioneering convictions. Obviously electioneering is going to become the deciding factor.
- mathattack 8y agoIt’s worse. “Tough on crime” also means “Get votes by enforcing the death penalty.” We know that human memory is fallible yet we still enforce a punishment that we can’t back out of.
- duxup 8y agoIn my view tough on crime just means mandatory sentences in most cases, leaving judges out of that part of the process.