🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:14:09 -0600, Al <albert.finney000@geemail.coom>
wrote:

>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'm sure I could go back another decade and show an upturn but that's
not what I said. I said recent.
  
>> >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?

Well duh! You let out the minor drug offenders, change the laws, or
build more prisons - take your pick.

WB Yeats