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US also has, like, heck of a lot more crime than Denmark. We don’t arrest and jail people for the hell of it.
by xyzzyz 5y ago
US also has, like, heck of a lot more crime than Denmark. We don’t arrest and jail people for the hell of it.
- beefield 5y agoAnd based on comments here, it seems that many of you guys seriously think that a solution is... arresting and jailing more people? Somehow brings mind the quote about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. And from my European point of view, the three strikes thing is pretty much a definition of jailing people for the hell of it.
- throwaway1777 5y agoIf someone committed the same crime in Europe you would put them in jail too, would you not?
- beefield 5y agoContext was how to reduce crime, not whether a specific crime should yield jail time.
- xyzzyz 5y agoYes, that’s how the European country I moved to US from deals with crime. US is insanely lenient toward petty criminals compared to Europe.