US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'

Re:US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering su... by FireBeyond on Saturday January 04, 2025 @01:01PM (#42596451)

> A three strikes rule would eliminate nearly half of all violent crime because nearly half of violent crime is committed by people who have already been convicted of 3+ other violent crimes.

LMAO. Twenty-nine states have a three strikes rule, and their violent crime hasn't decreased by half.

Source: https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/three-strikes...

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Re:US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering su... by blackeyeblitzar on Saturday January 04, 2025 @04:46PM (#42597921)

Maybe it has dropped relative to what it would have been otherwise.

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Re:US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering su... by FireBeyond on Saturday January 04, 2025 @09:46PM (#42599339)

Then presumably the states with these rules will be the least violent in the country, right?

Spoiler: they’re not. In fact several of the states without those rules have less violent crime.

If you want to say each state is different, sure. But there is zero way of proving your hypothesis.

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