'the union grew from 2,600 officers to 45,000 officers. Salaries jumped: In 1980, the average officer earned $15,000 a year; today, one in every 10 officers makes more than $100,000 a year.'
Unreal.
Well now. The "experts" have spoken, I guess I have no choice but to agree, right?
The problem started when crime spiraled out of control in the 1980s. Incarceration was only a reaction to that. Do you really have to be an "expert" to understand that?
Cut costs: Build fenced-in tent cities in the desert, on unused state property.
How much would you like them to be paid, to have to wear stab vests and neck protection, be spit on, have excrement thrown at them, the lives of your family members in jeopardy if your address is found out, and best of all, not lay a finger on the little darlings in the process? There’s not enough money to pay most people to do that job.
Animals that mostly should be exterminated but are housed at great cost and threat to the general public.
Estimates run as high as 35% of the population now incarcerated.
That's right - if those darned citizens hadn't demanded the criminals be taken off the streets, none of this would have happened. Everyone was better off when criminals were free to steal, maim and kill. /sarcasm
No bias to be found here.