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Our prisons would be empty if locking away the average convict took half the effort that was necessary to put them where they are.
by vkou 4y ago
Our prisons would be empty if locking away the average convict took half the effort that was necessary to put them where they are.
- nkurz 4y agoIt took me several re-readings to conclude that "them" and "they" at the end of this sentence are referring to different people! I think what vkou is saying (and I agree) is that while there currently are some police in prison who have been convicted of crimes, the difficulty factor of convicting a police officer is much higher than the difficulty of convicting a normal person. If the same higher standard for obtaining a conviction was applied to everyone else, hardly anyone would be sent to prison.