“Well whatever you do don’t look at the DOJ graphs above and make any interpretations of them. I guess that would tend to support my argument that crime rates are dropping”
Oh, I looked at them. Yes, crime rates are dropping, and that is because more money is being spent on incarceration. Those facts don’t support your tendentious interpretation thereof.
Me thinks you are putting the cart before the horse, unless you think that people are put in jail before they are charged and convicted in a court of law. Minority Report was just a bad Tom Cruise film, not reality.