Monday, June 30, 2008
Increasing Prisoner Population = Declining Crime Rates
Lefties lament that the US prisoner population swells even as crime rates are dropping. These "caring" people assume that evil prison profiteers and various white racists (cops, judges, politicians) are tossing black folks into prison unjustly, "spending more money to keep a man in prison than to educate him." But the crime stats as presented here by George Will indicate that "the system" overall is nabbing the right people, and that keeping them in prison is the cause of general reductions in crime, not an indication of unnecessarily incarcerations. Further, with urban public school systems spending annually over $10k per student, it seems unlikely that spending even more would somehow influence more individuals in this population (by far the richest source of violent and property crime) from making the life choices that result in society spending even more annually to house them in prisons.
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The US has 25% of the worlds prisoners and only 5% of its population. This is a result of the "War on Drugs". A majority of the prisoners are in there for being drug users and/or small time pushers. This gives the real big drug dealers (Cocaine Import Agency) the scapegoats they need as well as the cover to continue their covert operations. It also serves the purpose of growing the private corporation that runs most, if not all, of the US prisons - that being the Correctional Departments Corporation. They are a private corporation for profit, and the more prisoners they get the more money they receive from the government. PERIOD. It is just another one of the numerous scams being perpetrated against the american people. Anyone who has done even a simple investigation into this 'phenomenon' would know that it is no accident that we have some many 'criminals'. It is a result of all the drugs that have been pushed on the streets (for profit), and then the imprisonment of the users (for profit). I really am enjoying this blog as it gives me the forun to showm my vast brain power - ha!
I agree that over half the prisoners come from the drug war: people caught using, dealing, fighting over turf, or stealing to pay the high cost caused by the drug ban itself. None the less, the stats cited here show that imprisoning these people has the overall effect of lowering crime rates. Of course a much more substantial reduction would occur if drug use were legalized and regulated.
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