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The US already has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and it's also by far the most dangerous and crime-ridden developed country in the world: there a
by Clewza313 5y ago
The US already has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and it's also by far the most dangerous and crime-ridden developed country in the world: there are 7x (seven) times more murders than any other OECD country!
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/pdf https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/pdf
Yet you're proposing doubling down on a clearly broken approach?
- torstenvl 5y agoBoth Colombia and Mexico are OECD countries and have higher murder rates than the United States. Lithuania's is close. The U.S. is roughly on par with Greenland for murders per capita.
- Clewza313 5y agoSorry, my bad, the study above is for high-income OECD countries as opposed to all of them. Mexico and Colombia are both much poorer than the US, and Greenland is both not a country and a bit of a special case since the locals struggle so much with alcohol.