> It is time to solve these problems like Europe does, and one step is incarceration going down to three times the rate of China, as opposed to over four times.

> It is time to solve these problems like Europe does, and one step is incarceration going down to three times the rate of China, as opposed to over four times. But correlation does not imply causation, right? I don't understand how it follows from noting our incarceration rate being higher than another place with less crime, and then reaching the seeming conclusion that the answer, therefore, is to stop putting people in jail.