SuckMyBike t1_jdz3eym wrote
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Every other developed country currently also has their lowest murder rate in a century. But they are locking up 10x fewer people than the US is.
In fact, despite by far having the highest prison population of any country (and it's not even close), the US still has the highest homicide rates of any developed country.
It's almost as if it's not working at all. If locking more people up was working, then the US should have the lowest crime rates of developed countries, not the highest.
IRequirePants t1_je0l9p9 wrote
>Every other developed country currently also has their lowest murder rate in a century. But they are locking up 10x fewer people than the US is
There is a million and a half reasons why this is. Edit: Since the comment was deleted - there are a million and half reasons why the US and other western countries have different circumstances
>It's almost as if it's not working at all.
The (until recently) record low homicide rate begs to differ.
SuckMyBike t1_je0li2b wrote
This post is pathetic. On the one hand you claim that there are a million reasons why crime rates are low in other countries, but then you go and claim that the US crime rate being low is thanks to putting people in prison.
Fucking pathetic.
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