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Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by lukasm on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:48AM (#15489716)
Europol budget is 1/80 of FBI's
Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by coldtea on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:32AM (#15489878)
FBI's budget should have been 1/80 of FBI's too -- the US has 25% of the world's prison population, with just 4% of the world's population.
Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by adventured on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:38AM (#15490121)
The FBI isn't a large part of the reason the US has so many people in jail & prison. Mandatory minimum sentencing laws are about 3/4 of the cause, along with treating drug addiction as a crime instead of as strictly a health concern is most of the rest of that (with all of it broadly falling under the war on drugs). The get-tough-on-crime (by putting everyone in prison) era, during the Reagan / Bush / Clinton years, is the root.
Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by jpatokal on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @07:28AM (#15490083)
The FBI is only a small part of the US criminal justice system. 90% of US prisoners are held in state or local prison, not federal ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by maxerickson on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @09:09AM (#15490579)
Do you think the FBI is really driving incarceration? Federal prisoners are only ~10% of the US prison population and tend to be convicted of more serious crimes.
Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by Tepix on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:55AM (#15489970)
Wow, they are doing such a great job obviously! /s
Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by ekianjo on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:32AM (#15489879)
And what does Europol does anyway? Are they actively involved in high profile investigations?
Re:Bomb kills journalist who exposed Malta's ties to tax havens by Chris2048 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:08AM (#15489788)
FBI uses it's budget to spy on its own citizens (Prism) and interfere with political process. The budget is supposed to be small.