Here are some facts:

X ^ | 02/11/2026 | Dan Friedman

[SmokingJoe]

Here are some facts:

1. A small number of people commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime, about 1% commit most crime and 3 to 5 percent commit ALL crime.

2. Offenders who commit major crimes also commit constant public order infractions, so policing public order incapacitates serious criminals.

The guy who gropes women on the train or mugs people probably didn’t swipe his credit card to get through the turnstile.

3. Nearly all the people killed in controversial “Black Lives Matter” incidents belonged to the tiny subset of recidivist criminals. Jordan Neely and George Floyd are both examples of this kind of person, and both should have been in prison.

4. Depolicing public order crimes to protect habitual offenders from police interactions and incarceration costs a lot of lives, like that of Iryna Zarutska.

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KEYWORDS: ajntsa; crime

[TheThirdRuffian]

Broken window policing. Repeatedly proven correct.

[ComputerGuy]

...actually, a small number of people just do a lot of antisocial shit...

[Leaning Right]

Here’s one thing (among many) that liberals just don’t get. It’s expensive to incarcerate career criminals. But those folks do a lot of damage. So it’s more expensive to let them run free.

[b4me]

1% of what number? whole population? a certain population or area? the world?

[aquila48]

For some reason Singapore doesn’t have this problem.

[albie]

Hm...not one mention of ethnicity

[TexasFreeper2009]

its cheap to execute them, which is what should be done

[aquila48]

“It’s expensive to incarcerate career criminals. But those folks do a lot of damage. So it’s more expensive to let them run free.”

It’s much more than just a dollars thing. It’s about people’s safety and security, and not having to look over your shoulders every time you go out. It’s quality of life.

[A_perfect_lady]

You know... I don’t know if his stats are proven, but I have to say, they ring true. When I was a teacher, most of my students were decent little humans. But there were always 3-4 in every class (except Honors) who were just little creeps, constantly trying to cause trouble. And out of 150 students, there were usually about 7-8 whom I just hated.

[PGalt]

YES. Save money, save innocent lives, zero recidivism.

[AppyPappy]

Fact: You can move to places where there is almost no crime. I live in a town of 1800 people and there is a conceal carry class every month.

[Leaning Right]

> It’s much more than just a dollars thing. It’s about people’s safety and security… <

Right. I totally agree. I was just making the financial side of the argument.

I probably don’t have the numbers exactly right, but I read somewhere that it costs around $60,000 a year to keep a person in prison. But a career criminal on the outside does something like $250,000 worth of damage each year.

[Skwor]

This has been known for thousands of years.

Many think the societies of the past were way more draconian and oppressive to everyday life than they actually were, truth is the normal law-abiding citizen learned to avoid authority and follow the law and typically lived a fairly reasonable live.

It has been a recent culture of modern society were seeing law enforcement as part of the community is normal, the norm has been to avoid authority.

I think neither model is perfect and both work when actually used correctly.

[Skwor]

Oh, I forgot to add, these stats are obviously racist. /sarcoff

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

When I see the name Iryna Zarutska or think of her fate...I have to pause for a few minutes and calm myself. Tha poor girl probably couldn’t fully understand at that moment what was happening to her. So horribly sad.

[central_va]

Amish?

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Crime breeds criminals, as well. I have wondered for a long time, how with programs like Big Brother and other bleeding hearts - where is the compassion for the innocent young growing up with these monsters? How many are led into a life of crime by career criminals. I suspect many.

[Uncle Miltie]

Thas Raciss!!!

[rlmorel]

It bears repeating.

Bill Whittle made this excellent video about this subject a few years back which COMPLETELY puts things in the proper perspective:

"Black Lives Matter Kills People" by Bill Whittle

It is a 7 minute video which puts it in context, and explains much. It uses the government compiled statistics from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting system (LINK) which aggregates crime statistics voluntarily submitted from Law Enforcement around the country. It keeps these in a database which is available to the public, and if you are a data junkie, is a very interesting tool.

Unfortunately, since Heather MacDonald used this publicly accessible database to publicize the lie behind Black Lives Matter when she was with the Wall Street Journal, the Left did what they always do-instead of using the information to obtain the accurate perspective of black crime, they have corrupted the database by pressuring the localities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, and Minneapolis (just to name a few) to NOT voluntarily send statistics to the FBI because they felt the data was being used for evil purposes.

In reality, it was exposing the truth, which is like Holy Water to Leftists, and has the same effect on them it purportedly has on vampires. So, since the places around the country with the highest rates of crime deciding not to voluntarily send crime data to the FBI, the database is less reflective of the truth today. In any case, the truth is absolutely the same today as it was when Bill Whittle made this video a few years back I think around 2017 maybe). Here are some relevant screen captures from that EXCELLENT video: