LMAO > However, If you look at the pre-trial graph for Texas at https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/TX.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/TX.html, wh

LMAO > However, If you look at the pre-trial graph for Texas at https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/TX.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/TX.html, which incidentally also includes local jail (not prison) post-conviction confinement numbers, it could only hypothetically double the admittance numbers if we assume worst case. “Maybe it’s double, *shrug* that supports my data-based opinion because that’s how I choose to interpret the importance of the difference between 1x and 2x.” That was certainly a lot of words about England and wales! > But ultimately it can't effect my point as it couldn't remotely account for the sheer magnitude difference in incarceration rate in the US, and fundamentally is a matter of sentence severity--longer incarceration durations creating a larger total incarcerated population, which is precisely my point. This is precisely the opposite of the point you attempted to make at the beginning of this conversation. Why was it so important to point out that the prison problem isn’t that extreme and that people are falling for a fallacy yesterday, but not today? In either case, I’m not going to spend any more time trying to debate one of the many methods you’ve used to justify handing cops more power than the DA. It’s a great distraction from “What I want is to give the power to arrest and jail people to the police over the elected officials tasked with due process. I want to do this even more than I want to replace the DA or seek remedy from the state, because I believe that police should fundamentally have this power to protect us from hippie prosecutors in the future.” But, uh, I don’t have a short attention span. I haven’t forgotten what we’re actually talking about here. Good job with some funfacts about England and Wales though!