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A LOT of crime can be solved. A huge percentage of perps are multi-repeat perps. Putting them away permanently would solve a lot of crime. "75% to 83% of relea
by dmitrygr 3mo ago
A LOT of crime can be solved. A huge percentage of perps are multi-repeat perps. Putting them away permanently would solve a lot of crime.
"75% to 83% of released prisoners are arrested for a new crime" https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/2018-update-prisoner-recidivism-9-year-follow-period-2005-2014 https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/2018-update-prisone...
- tchalla 3mo ago… in the US
- skinfaxi 3mo agoYes, kind of obvious from the .gov right?
- numeri 3mo agoI read the comment you're replying to as saying, "in the US, but other countries may have different policies that result in lower recidivism, and that might change the conclusion; maybe people aren't inherently criminally insane, but can become useful members of society, if given a chance"
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- skinfaxi 3mo agoWhile I think your interpretation is possibly overly charitable, I agree my comment was unwarranted and unnecessary. I can't delete it at this point.
- tchalla 3mo agoThe overly charitable comment is exactly how I meant it. Let me phrase it a bit differently, if this study would be let’s say from Finland … it would have been the most straightforward comment to make. But it’s the US so it’s not. You don’t need to delete your comment. It’s not a big deal. We all have different days.
- whall6 3mo agoseems cruel and unusual…
- GauntletWizard 3mo agoUnusual? Only because we've made it so. Cruel? Nah. Locking someone up because they're criminally insane is less cruel than letting them roam the streets, both to the perpetrator and the people around them.
- blharr 3mo ago"Solved" (heavy quotes) because instiutionalizing dozens of millions of people with no improvement is a massive crime in and of itself. That's like those stories of LLMs saying "I fixed the vulnerability in your app" by deleting the project entirely
- dmitrygr 3mo agoWouldn’t you say that the lowered crime rate enjoyed by the innocent as a result is an improvement?
- srveale 3mo agoWhy not just incarcerate everyone between the age of 15-27, if what we're worried about is crime rate.
- dmitrygr 3mo agoBecause most of those people are not repeat violent criminals? We only need to incarcerate repeat violent offenders to reduce crime noticeably. This is not controversial. The data is linked-to above.
- RugnirViking 3mo agoIs it really true that in places with longer jail sentences (specifically, tile spent in prison) and/or higher prison populations as a share of general population that there is less crime?
- tcmart14 3mo agoJust to throw my two cents in. We could look at Singapore which does have harsher sentencing and low crime rates. However, there is a bit of caveat. Singapore has its red light districts where law enforcement sorta turns a blind eye. Its more of a, "so long as you keep your bullshit there, be classy about it and don't let it spill out, we will just conveniently ignore it."
- inigyou 3mo agoAmerica has the most people in prison (both absolute and per capita) and also some of the highest crime rates, so it seems the correlation is the opposite.