Posted on 08/25/2002 5:53:36 PM PDT by GeneD
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- One in every 32 adults in the United States was behind bars or on probation or parole by the end of last year, according to a government report Sunday that found a record 6.6 million people in the nation's correctional system.
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Actually, this is the result of the last decades of social permissiveness and Dr. Spock's philosophy of ego inflating of the child. Let's not forget the failure of the drug war and the use of drugs to undermine America. This bubble will eventually lose air as parents get a grip on kids' behavior. Let's hope anyway.
Also, I wonder to what degree banning ex-felons from guns makes poor neighborhoods less safe.
Also, I wonder to what degree banning ex-felons from guns makes poor neighborhoods less safe.
Exactly. There are so many laws on the books, and so many have been made felonies, that most of us are probably uncaught felons. This is not apparant until you become the object of attention. For example, in Arizona, when you were 18 - 25, did you ever sexually touch someone under the are of 18? You committed a felony. Did you possess a gun that was not in a locked container while within a thousand feet of school property? Another felony. Did you send money to one of the hundreds of organizations connected to Bin Laden, most of them disguised as charities? Another felony. How about protesting within so many feet of an abortion clinic? Isn't that a felony also?
What is so scary about this, is as we become a surveilance society, with cameras everywhere, and the ability of the state to digitally retrieve all information about us, the ability to selectively prosecute those who oppose the policies of office holders becomes real. And nobody in the media is at all concerned with Clinton's abuse of the IRS.
Since most criminals commit many more crimes than they are arrested for, much less (with plea bargaining) sentenced for, the very best form of crime prevention is to keep criminals locked up. Why is that so hard to understand?
Incarceration is up. Crime is down. Do these dummies think that's just an accident? Might there be, could there be, a slight relationship between locking up criminals and less crime being committed in the streets?
Congressman Billybob
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Special Report
August 1995, NCJ-149076
(Note: This file does not contain data tables. The full text with tables is available from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse, 800-732-3277. Use title and NCJ number to order.)
By Robyn L. Cohen BJS Statistician
In 1991, 45% of State prisoners were persons who, at the time they committed their offense, were under conditional supervision in the community--either on probation or on parole.
Based on the offense that brought them to prison, the 162,000 probation violators committed at least 6,400 murders, 7,400 rapes, 10,400 assaults, and 17,000 robberies, while under supervision in the community an average of 17 months.
Based on the offense that brought parolees back to prison, these 156,000 offenders committed at least 6,800 murders, 5,500 rapes, 8,800 assaults, and 22,500 robberies, while under supervision in the community an average of 13 months.
SEE LINK for complete report
Lets see... 318,000 prisoners returned to prison. 13,200 muders, 12,800 rapes, 9,840 assaults, 40,100 robberies
We don't know what kind of overlap there is per prisoner,
We have 318,000 prisoners and about 77000 crimes, or about four times as many prisoners as serious crimes. I am most certainly missing something here. Are most prisoners going back to jail for victimless crimes like drug possession?
Or are a lot of these crimes ones with victims, like burglaries, that are not mentioned?
Yes. Thanks to the rediculous DUI massive overkill, they'll have a record of every adult male in America soon.
Don't bother lecturing me on the evils of driving and drinking, because you have no idea what the states are now doing--though no doubt you will one day soon. It's HUGHE guaranteed income for certain interest groups.
Welcome to the New Millineum--where every citizen is an enemy of the state. And the State has become the enemy of the people.
How about 15,400? Check it out for yourself.
Here is another one to BLOW your mind a just released RECIDIVISM report.
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