Somehow the US incarcerates many times the number of people per capita that any other culturally comparable nation incarcerates. In “the land of the free”, we have more prisoners per capita than ANYONE.
Is it your opinion that Americans (698 prisoners per 100k population) are 7x as likely to be criminals as, say, Canadians (106 per 100k)?
If not, how would you explain the differential?
Let’s compare apples to apples, shall we?
If Canada had as many violent inner city thugs and illegal invaders as the USA does their numbers would be similar. If you subtract the percentages of blacks and latinos from the USA total I would expect that the numbers are similar. Those demographics ARE more likely to commit crimes than, say, Canadians (or English, French, Germans, Swiss, etc.)