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Consider another few possibilities. 1. Americans are just more likely to be criminals. 2. Other nations may be equally or even more ineffective at tackling cr
by MattGaiser 5y ago
Consider another few possibilities.
1. Americans are just more likely to be criminals.
2. Other nations may be equally or even more ineffective at tackling crime.
The assumption that jail doesn't work rests on the assumption that other nations track crime as effectively and that their people are equally criminal.
- tomlockwood 5y agoI'm totally behind 1, open to any evidence of 2. The question then if we decide 1 is the case is - why? What predisposes Americans to, the most jailable crime in the world?
- phendrenad2 5y agoLet's figure out if it's 1 or 2 first.
- MattGaiser 5y agoI don’t have anything other than anecdotal stories I would rather not share publicly, but it essentially amounts to there not being any resources to handle non-violent crime (and even violent crime against men is anecdotally ignored). There just isn’t the capacity of the system to deal with how terrible so many people are and the end result of that is cops not bothering to even record instances as they don’t think it will matter. This is Canada.
- otikik 5y agoHere’s another option one: 3. The American system is putting a lot of innocent people behind bars.
- MattGaiser 5y agoWhile letting the actual criminals go free for those crimes? Possibly.
- disambiguation 5y ago1. Quickly becomes an uncomfortable conversation for most people when you look at the crime stats breakdown by demographic.
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- jjj123 5y agoIs it uncomfortable? Crime is pretty clearly a systemic issue. If we all were secure in food, housing, and healthcare do you think crime rates would be as high as they are? What demographics in the US do you think are least likely to be secure in food, housing, and healthcare?
- disambiguation 5y agoIt is because you're kidding yourself if you try to explain it as purely socio economic, and a lot of people don't want to go there. For example, men dominate the prison and violent crime demographics compared to women.