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"We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country," So instead of getting to the root of the problem, which is committing crime in the first place,

• anigbrowl 12y ago
  You've been here long enough and participated in enough discussions on this topic that I think you know very well that crime is at a historic low, as well as some of the prevailing theories about which factors might have influenced that besides incarceration. To lead off with such a dismissive comment on such a complex sociopolitical issue is very disingenuous. I could respectfully disagree if you had taken some time time to lay out a context for your position, but as it is it just seems like the most vacuous kind of sniping.
• angersock 12y ago
  As a point of order, the root of the problem is the laws under which they are prosecuted--without the existence of the definition of the crime, we could hardly identify somebody who perpetrated it as a criminal, now could we? That's really the root of the issue: there are a large and arbitrary number of laws under which people may be deemed criminals, and that makes just rule difficult.