Do you believe that "Americans are 12 times more criminally inclined than Europeans"?
No, but we have one solution to every problem, and that's send everyone to jail.
Too many illegal immigrants? Throw their employers in jail.
Disorderly sixth graders? Arrest them.
A business goes broke? Must be fraud, investigate everyone.
There is no stupidy, no accidents, everything is due to evildoers!
Te implication is that Europe imprisons the "right" amount of people. Maybe Europe is 1/12 as effective at protecting society from criminals.....
Possibly 12 times more Americans are criminally inclined than Europeans but take into account the police no-go areas in so many European cities. Criminals in those areas never get prosecuted and imprisoned because they are allowed the freedom to do their worst in those areas.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Table 13.
Number of inmates in State or Federal prisons
and local jails, by gender, race,
Hispanic origin
June 30, 2004
Male
Total White Black Hispanic
1,947,800 695,800 842,500 366,800
Female
Total White Black Hispanic
183,400 81,700 67,700 28,600
An estimated 12.6% of black males,
3.6% of Hispanic males, and
1.7% of white males in their
late twenties were in prison or jail.
At midyear 2004 there were 4,919 black male prison
and jail inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States,
compared to 1,717 Hispanic male inmates
per 100,000 Hispanic males
and 717 white male inmates per 100,000 white males.