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"We obviously have made no progress—lots of theory, but no progress—in decreasing the amount of crime by the method that we use to handle criminals." Not sure
by jeffdavis 7y ago
"We obviously have made no progress—lots of theory, but no progress—in decreasing the amount of crime by the method that we use to handle criminals."
Not sure that's obvious. Crime has steadily fallen. Particular practices may not stand up to scrutiny, but I'm guessing a lot of it does kind of work.
- kragen 7y agoIn the US crime rose steadily from 1960 to 1990, and that's using the official statistics that don't even try to include things like the Iran–Contra scandal, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, CREEP, the Kent State murders, and the CIA protecting crack kingpins. Feynman was speaking in 1974, right in the middle of this period.