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A comment on Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers. Parent comment

Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by CPLX on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @09:31AM (#9576150)
That's correct they are not. David Simon has spoken at length on that exact issue, and it's referenced in the article I linked to quoting him.
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Re:Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American ... by pyre on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:13PM (#9577291)
Do you have numbers to backup the claim that those other crimes are occurring at a higher rate than the number of arrests/convictions for them? In other words, would every "War on Drugs" arrest translate into a "more useful" arrest if we eliminated the War on Drugs (and refocused on other crimes)? My feeling is that it wouldn't.
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