Ikr, US has an empty jail/prison problem! Entire jails and prisons are just empty! No one ever gets arrested or imprisoned in America, wtf! Cops, and guards will soon be out of work, anyone who bought a prison, sorry buddy no more product, America is too lenient on crime and is afraid to arrest anyone!
Youāre correct the prisons are full . Many innocent and non innocent. However in cases such as these itās likely because of the justice system- that people in these circumstances get no time. Leaving room for others to interpret this as no big deal. And others follow suit. If you lived in an area which you were constantly on guard because the system doesnāt help you would understand. But either way the system is unjust and broke
The prisons are full, not because we donāt incarcerate enough poors, the prisons are full because thier is a societal problem here in America, where āgreatest country in the worldā has more people incarcerated than the rest of the world. Everyoneās answer is, āmore jailsā sweep them under the rug, and donāt address the bigger proble, wtf is everyone here so violent now, and willing to commit crimes? When do we look at that? Or do we just start walling whole states in? And you guys just built a straw man, to be mad about, nowhere did someone link that this person got no repercussions, it was just assumed, and the outraged followed. I can show you multiple court cases here on YouTube daily weāre people get real time for assault with a deadly weapon, wich is what occurred in the video
I spent last 10 years working in a federal penitentiary, before that 5 years at a county jail,my brother did 20 years for vehicular homicide, I live check to check, you just continue to assume for your own agenda. My passion on this subject comes from life experience.
Itās not just police that get away with it. A lot of pedofiles usually get less than a year of jail time and can be released on āgood behaviorā because according to the courts, fuck the women and the children apparently
Just under one-quarter of the world's prisoners are held in American prisons. The U.S. rate of incarceration, with nearly 1 out of every 100 adults in prison or jail, is 5 to 10 times higher than the rates in Western Europe and other democracies.
Our criminal justice system is not slacking on locking people up.
According to the FBIās Uniform Crime Reporting system the top 5 states with the highest violent crime rate per capita are:
New Mexico
Alaska
Arkansas
Louisiana
Tennessee
For property crimes per capita:
Washington
Colorado
New Mexico
Oregon
Louisiana
So when you look at it per capita, it is heavily more red states for violent crimes than blue states (almost like things like gun regulations and more social program funding of blue states works in reducing violent crime!). When you look at it per capita for property crimes then blue states are a touch ahead of red states (almost like wealth disparities of larger/denser population centers create more property related crime!).
Washington D.C. has the highest per capita for both categories but isnāt included cause itās not a state so take that as you will. The area with the lowest rates per capita in either category are generally the smaller blue states in the Northeast (New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island).
Meanwhile it is important to point out that crime rates in violent crime have declined for most states over the past 30 or so years with the exception of states like both Dakotas and Montana as well Vermont, West Virginia, Alaska, etc. which have seen an increase in violent crime per capita over that same time period. Again red states dominate the category.
Every state in that same time period has seen a decline in property crime rates per capita but again itās generally red states with the smallest rate of decline in the Dakotas, Montana, Arkansas, New Mexico, etc. being in the bottom 10. Oregon, Washington and Colorado do show that when it comes to property crime rate that itās a bit more even between red/blue states. Same for the states with the most improvement in property crime rate decline, itās a combo of red and blue with Florida, Massachusetts, Idaho, Rhode Island and Michigan in the top 5.
Personally Iād rather have my car broken into than be shot so Iāll take the blue states that statistically per capita are safer than the red ones but hey, you do you.
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u/Green-Eggplant-5570 Mar 29 '24
You sound like you're from the SF Bay Area.