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Posted by paulpauper 6/25/2025

America’s incarceration rate is in decline(www.theatlantic.com)
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black_13 6/26/2025|
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amelius 6/25/2025||
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bomba_tom 6/25/2025||
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msgodel 6/25/2025|
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analognoise 6/25/2025||
Sorry, is this sarcasm?

That's a frequent racist dog-whistle to justify systemically unjust (read: racist) policing; I'm surprised to see it on HN.

keybored 6/25/2025|||
Everything bad is due to lack of intelligence and everything good is caused by intelligence. Average day on the HN.
analognoise 6/26/2025||
The irony is that seeing things that way implies a massive lack of intelligence.
keybored 6/26/2025||
Intelligent people can have a too narrow lens of the world too. Like when sociological issues becomes all about culture and intelligence.
bdangubic 6/25/2025|||
you shouldn’t be :)
cooper_ganglia 6/26/2025||
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whoknowsidont 6/26/2025||
Do you have any clear examples of this that demonstrate the consistency of the pattern you're describing?
cooper_ganglia 6/26/2025||
Sure, a quick search unfortunately gives you result after result!

https://www.wsmv.com/2025/06/23/family-woman-murdered-nashvi...

https://nypost.com/2025/02/28/us-news/career-criminal-free-w...

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/the-judge-did-her-job-defe...

https://nypost.com/2025/02/22/us-news/nyc-career-criminal-ty...

https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/us-news/plucky-nyc-victim-94-v...

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-judges-violent-perps-report

https://nypost.com/2025/03/22/us-news/meet-wanda-licitra-nyc...

https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/us-news/hooligan-whose-alleged...

https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/serial-perv-who-tried-...

https://nypost.com/2025/01/07/us-news/nyc-sees-staggering-14...

https://nypost.com/2025/03/07/us-news/maniac-busted-for-slug...

https://nypost.com/2024/08/11/us-news/brute-charged-in-attac...

https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-states-bail-laws-panned-poli...

whoknowsidont 6/26/2025||
Even the Fox links go back to the NY Post. lol.
inglor_cz 6/26/2025||
I don't believe that, at least not in the whole nation (certain cities may be an exception). US cities used to be a lot more violent three decades ago. Fudging manslaughters statistics is not easy.

I suspect the reason is the same as with everything else - kids glued to screens don't have time or even stamina for gang activity, all their attention being consumed by a highly addictive product at hand.

knowitnone 6/26/2025||
only because the US is soft on crime - so soft that drugs that were illegal are no longer illegal
snickerdoodle12 6/26/2025||
Does this include those sent to the gulag in El Salvador?
b3ing 6/26/2025||
Crime has been going down since the 90s, video games and online porn probably helped this
charlescearl 6/26/2025||
The Black southeast is still in over the Soviet Union’s rates during the 1930s https://www.prisonpolicy.org/profiles/LA.html. Racialized carceral warfare.
almosthere 6/26/2025|
After covid they changed who will go to jail for what because they decided overcrowding with covid was killing inmates. I think it was the right thing to do at the time.

However since 2021ish crime has been skyrocketing. It's definitely time to figure out the next steps. I want to live in a peaceful, safe society. It makes sense to separate those that can't help but destroy the peace.

It has also been stated that something like 90% of crime is performed by a very small percentage of people and most of it is just the same person over and over and over. Those people must be separated from society.