Posted on 05/16/2016 10:41:11 AM PDT by detective
Backers of the criminal justice reform bill pending in Congress are intent on reducing the population of the federal prisons.
Their premise? Prisons are overflowing with minor drug offenders who have no reason to be incarcerated – “mass incarceration” is the term they like to use.
As many have pointed out, that premise is a lie. Less than one percent of the federal prison population is there for drug possession, and most of those pled down from a more serious offense. But the left is intent on releasing prisoners anyway – mostly before their sentences run. Those to be let out, since there are so few minor offenders, are often violent multiple offenders, many of whom will start committing more crimes as soon as they are released.
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“Drug crimes are political crimes, and our jails our indeed packed full of these political prisoners.”
That’s a load of crap. Most of your “political prisoners” were sentenced for multiple felonies including crimes of violence. The drug charges are part of that list but are NOT the sole reason they are incarcerated.
Liberals FEEL that criminals are people who, through no fault of their own, have been victimized by an unfair society. When a lib FEELS something it is Moral Truth engraved in stone. Violate a libs FEELINGS and it gins up his ANGER. ANGER is good. Anger is all a lib has. It constitutes PROOF the the liberal is a GOOD GUY.
‘Rats just want their fellow crookz free to continue to commit crimes along side themselves.
The ‘Rats and their fellow travelers are just dint du nuffins....
Why blacks vote for democrats is still a mystery to me.
Aggresive butt sex?
The Bundys, et. al. are the 0bama Political Prisoners.
True dat - and I doubt that they do any drugs.
Because ALL LIBs belong in prison so they are anticipating being early-released: sort of like planning for their futures.
Why did violent crime go down in the 1990’s?
Because we looked a lot of people up for drug crimes, which may not themselves have been violent crimes, but the people committing non-violent crimes also tend to be the ones committing violent crimes
If we had it set up that they would be released to these libtards own homes, I know that would end their demands for releasing them.
“Why Are Liberals Anxious to Free Violent Criminals From Prison?”
Another shot fired in the War on Whites.
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?
The short answer: shock troops in the ongoing class warfare.
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.)
Am I correct in restating your position as being that you believe the reason we imprison seven people for every one that Canada imprisons is our larger percentages of blacks and latinos?
That would be correct. If they don’t want to do the time they shouldn’t do the crimes.
OK let’s do some math.
Incarceration rate of non-Hispanic white males in the US is 678 per 100k. For non-Hispanic white females it is 91 per 100k.
This works out to a per capita incarceration rate for non-Hispanic whites of 380 per 100k.
In Canada, the per capita incarceration rate for ALL ethnicities is 110 per 100k.
So even factoring out blacks and Hispanics entirely from the equation, the US still incarcerates over three and a half times the number of non-Hispanic white people as Canada does.
Now that ethnicity is factored out of the equation, what explanation have you for that 250% difference? Why does the US imprison 3.5 people per 100k population for every one that Canada does?
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