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Whoever is downvoting the parent would you share why you feel they are wrong? One example of US tyranny is that it has the highest incarceration rate in the wo
by josho 7y ago
Whoever is downvoting the parent would you share why you feel they are wrong?
One example of US tyranny is that it has the highest incarceration rate in the world (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-prison-population-rates-in-the-world.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-prison-populatio...). Other countries with high incarceration rates are developing countries, often with struggling democracies. Just one of many examples I can think of.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoThat rate is because we have a high crime rate, combined with functioning law enforcement. The true tyranny is if you let crime go unchecked.
- majewsky 7y agoA "high crime rate combined with functioning law enforcement" is a contradiction in itself.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoNo it isn't. How do you arrest people before they commit crimes?
- majewsky 7y agoLaw enforcement is much more than arresting people after the crime has already happened.
- abdullahkhalids 7y ago> The true tyranny is if you let crime go unchecked. First of all, you contradict accepted legal principles, which demands that a false negative is better than a false positive. The more the number of people in prison, more the chances that there are innocent people in there. > That rate is because we have a high crime rate, combined with functioning law enforcement. Second, the state's goal is to reduce crime. Catching criminals is one of the many ways to do so, and punishing criminals after catching them is only one of the things the state can do. The state can alternatively spend money on reducing the root causes of crime (like poverty), and it can spend money on rehabilitation instead of punishment. These are among the wide variety of strategies a modern state can pursue to reduce crime.