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And their murder rate collapsed. Their policy was great.

• PittleyDunkin 2y ago
  Crazy how most countries manage a lower crime rate without behaving like savages. Not us, though! The entire point seems to be the cruelty.
  • PKop 2y ago
    Perhaps the component parts are different?
• orwin 2y ago
  I'm not sure most of the murder rate collapse had to do with incarceration. It's probably true for a small part, but from what I've heard the anti-corruption raids against the police and the end of gang wars are had more impact. Note that those are driven by the policies of the current government, I'm not saying that the Salvadoran government is bad _at all_, I'm saying that the 'imprison everything' part of the set of policies is probably the less effective one. Also Salvador uses (and probably reinforce) non-salvadoran cartels to help destroy their local gangs, and I'm not sure that this works if every country does the same.