Re:San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge
by IG_Semmelweiss on Saturday May 22, 2021 @07:07AM
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The two approaches are not mutually exclusive
No one wants to put more people in jail.
I think poster is saying instead, policy should not encourage more criminals.
If you have X pool of existing law breakers, policy goal is to keep a % subset of X out of the prison system.
However, policy is increasing the size of X, to X+1.
The US has the largest prison population in the world by a large margin and we still have a relatively high crime rate overall, especially when it comes to violent crime. Putting more people in prison is not a solution to our problems as we can clearly see.
It really helps to look at the numbers to wrap your head around it, but here is a lot of good data to start understanding the issue. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
There is a lot of data and research out there regarding these issues, that's the good news. The bad news is that few people want to take the time to read it.
One more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-prisons-make-u...