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Solution to Reducing Crime

What is the Optimal Solution for Reducing Crime

  • More police and harsher penalties

    Votes: 3 9.1%
  • Invest in infrastructure and education

    Votes: 11 33.3%
  • Something else (please specificy)

    Votes: 19 57.6%

  • Total voters
    33
But they make a ton of profit for Corrections Corporation of America and other private prisons. Just another case of Corporate Welfare. Corporate is the home of Welfare Queens.
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how do you define corporate welfare?
 
how do you define corporate welfare?

Guarantee 96% occupancy of the Corporate prisons.
Energy Utilities are Corporate Welfare. Renewables cut their paychecks, ergo big renewables like Giant Wind and huge Solar fields.
Education money usually goes to buildings, not teachers, big Corporate contracts.
Wars feed Energy Corporations first then weapons manufacturers. No wars, no business. Drug war, terror war, Corporate wars and good for business.
Medical care is fed by government money. No reason to be competitive. Corporate welfare.
Tax breaks for big Corporations. Corporate welfare.
Bail out "too big to fail banks" = Corporate welfare.
Make more minor things illegal and jails will be full. Corporate welfare.
Highway and Utility infrastructure. corporate welfare.
Telephone and Internet via satellites. Corporate welfare.
State built stadiums for sports, etc. Corporate welfare.
When distribution of a Nation's wealth generates magnanimous returns to the 99%
at the expense of the 1%. Corporate Welfare.
Nuclear power where profits are guaranteed to big money owners and eventually we, the people
will have the liabilities/waste.
"Profits are privatized, liabilities are socialized." That's our system.
Off the cuff reply, no research.
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How about decriminalization of victimless crimes.
 
According to all the evidence we have, harsher punishments don't deter crime. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ggdMAA&usg=AFQjCNFjV19m4BLXmdD87k5ZU1qk1SQhMA
Since we do not have life in prison after 5 strikes, it is impossible to tell if it would deter crime. Common sense would tell you that if you will go to prison after 5 convictions for any crime, car theft, instead of the slap on the wrists some criminals seem to get, you WILL think more than twice about stealing that car. I think 5 strikes is too lenient.
 
Give people less of a reason to commit crime.

You can't "give" people a moral compass and a sense of personal responsibility.
 
Since we do not have life in prison after 5 strikes, it is impossible to tell if it would deter crime. Common sense would tell you that if you will go to prison after 5 convictions for any crime, car theft, instead of the slap on the wrists some criminals seem to get, you WILL think more than twice about stealing that car. I think 5 strikes is too lenient.

You didn't read the article, did you? There is no evidence that consideration of how unpleasant punishment will be factors into whether or not someone commits a crime, only how likely punishment is to be inflicted.
 
You didn't read the article, did you? There is no evidence that consideration of how unpleasant punishment will be factors into whether or not someone commits a crime, only how likely punishment is to be inflicted.

I don't need to read it to know you can't study something that doesn't exist. You can guess, but unless the possibility is real it's only a guess.
 
No, you can't but we can be more compassionate.

I am, up to a point. I do not have compassion for people who continue to commit crimes. Where is their compassion?
 
Some argue that investing in more police and imposing harsher sentences for all crime will help reduce it. Others say the problem in poverty and that investing in infrastructure nationwide, education, especially in impoverished areas is a better solution.

What do you think?

End the war on drugs, period. That would go a long way in stemming the tide of gang warfare and crime stemming from it.
 
I am, up to a point. I do not have compassion for people who continue to commit crimes. Where is their compassion?

Dear soul don't repeat their crime out of spite.
 
I don't need to read it to know you can't study something that doesn't exist. You can guess, but unless the possibility is real it's only a guess.

We can't measure the exact reaction to an unconstitutional stimulus, true, but we can clearly observe the thought process that would react to that stimulus; by every bit of evidence we have, people who break the law almost always do so because they don't think they will be caught. When you're pretty sure there isn't a cop around to bust you for speeding, you aren't going to worry about how expensive the ticket will be because you've already decided you probably won't be caught.
 
We can't measure the exact reaction to an unconstitutional stimulus, true, but we can clearly observe the thought process that would react to that stimulus; by every bit of evidence we have, people who break the law almost always do so because they don't think they will be caught. When you're pretty sure there isn't a cop around to bust you for speeding, you aren't going to worry about how expensive the ticket will be because you've already decided you probably won't be caught.

Good point. I'll also add that a true sociopath will not care about consequences either.
 
You don't have compassion for people who commit crimes. Are you perfect and non error prone?

I said who "continue" to commit crimes. No, I'm not perfect and make plenty of errors, but I don't continue to repeat them.
 
I said who "continue" to commit crimes. No, I'm not perfect and make plenty of errors, but I don't continue to repeat them.

Of course you do repeat making mistakes, maybe not the same ones but you keep on not being perfect, correct? Are you the first to throw a stone?
 
Keep criminals locked up. The same ones commit multiple crimes. Five strikes and you're out - permanently - even for stealing candy bars at Walmart.

As the prisons get full, execute the worse of them to make room for more.

If the worse now becomes the asshole who vandalized his neighbors property in the first degree, then... oh well...

I'm OK with getting rid of people who commit first degree cries against other.
 
Because 7 bucks an hour doesn't pay the bills, let alone afford the American Dream. And that's if there's a 7 dollar an hour job available. Think about where crimes happen, where criminals come from...any factories in south central? Corporate head quarters? Warehouses? Private equity firms, lol? How about Harlem? Flint?

Education is factor, sure. As is child rearing. But in my opinion, they're not the most important. The most important is oportunity. And places with the most crime, have the least oportunity, at least per capita.

Opportunity has been dwindling ever since president Clinton signed all those free trade agreements.

Most our good union factory jobs are disappearing.
 
It isn't that criminals don't worry about whether or not they will be punished, it's that how bad the punishment will be is often little more than an afterthought.

I still think that's because they know there will not be a punishment that severe. Now I'm not talking about intentional murder or the likes. However, for example, how do we end up with someone in their 30's who has been convicted of more than 4 or 5 times for assault and we hear about their record because they finally killed someone. What was a strong punishment that allowed someone to commit that many crimes, and be free to eventually kill someone. After the first couple of times, they know they will be out soon. So of course they aren't deterred.

IDK. But if the threat of harsher punishment doesn't work on some people, nothing will, because they just don't care.
 
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