🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <7bejs3dd83amnevp5gcp69b03tduc1od9k@4ax.com>,
 wbyeats@ireland.com wrote:

> On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:57:42 -0600, Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <ou1js35cguc9gu9gjskhk3nu0acbh8pkq8@4ax.com>,
> > wbyeats@ireland.com wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:33:35 -0600, Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >In article <c46gs3di7e4dggt92kn6ur57ate695c9oq@4ax.com>,
> >> > user@nospam.nul wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:56:07 -0600, Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> >In article <cljfs3dd52teo0ri1kbo84urdusl14l9nm@4ax.com>,
> >> >> > user@nospam.nul wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> 1 in 100 adults now in prison
> >> >> >> 2,319,258 Americans behind bars in 2008, most of any nation
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Now Bush is making people commit crimes.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Cute.
> >> >
> >> >It was your header.
> >> >
> >> >> Now, see if you can be equally cute pondering why the US
> >> >> imprisons more people on a percentage basis than any other "free" or
> >> >> communist country on earth.  Use extra cuteness.
> >> >
> >> >My guess is that law enforcement is becoming more efficient through 
> >> >technology, combined with the influx of people and the disaster of LBJ's 
> >> >Great Society.
> >> 
> >> And you be ........... totally wrong. The crime rate is not up much.
> >> What has happened is a combo of longer sentences with no parole, 3
> >> strikes laws, and the idiocy of imprisoning minor drug offenders. Why
> >> don't you read the article before adding your inane comments? Or can't
> >> you read?
> >
> >I cannot read, sorry, but actually the crime rate has been declining for 
> >years, decades.
> 
> I could tell you can't read - so why write? Recently crime has had a
> slight upturn.

Serious crime has been declining since the 80's, regardless of any 
slight momentary upturns.
 
> >I wonder if there's any correlation, or as the NYT wonders at least once 
> >a year "if crime is down, why are we building more prisons?"
> >So puzzling.
> 
> What don't you understand about the reasons posted above. They are the
> exact same reasons that analysis came up with for the increased prison
> population.

The fewer laws you have, the fewer lawbreakers, but who gets let out?