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None of this disproves what I said though.Our crime rate is embarrassing to me. And despite being punitive in some areas, in many others, that is not the case. In my experience as a Leo, I have read probably thousands of triple i reports (fbi records of every time a person was fingerprinted after an arrest with the result-conviction and how much they served) and I can tell you that many areas have pathetic sentencing for even violent crimes. I have seen countless life long shitbags get arrested dozens of times and they serve little time for even violent offenses.
It's your experience as an American LEO of the American justice system and you're comparing crimes within that system and finding infuriating inconsistencies. I'm not discrediting your experience there at all.
But...
That's not a comparison of justice systems of different countries.
Incarceration rate by country.
1) El Salvador
2) Cuba
3) Rawanda
4) Turkmenistan
5) USA
105) Australia
If you commit a dozen crimes in all the highly developed countries on earth and are caught and sentenced America is going to be incarcerating you for much longer than most of them.
The problem with this comes down to money. Incarcerating people costs money a lot of money. You complain a lot about how much people get rewarded for their contribution to society within the system quite a lot and your argument isn't without merit.
People who cost fuck all that contribute greatly to society:
Drug and alcohol workers, social workers, mental health workers, public outreach workers, financial counsellors, integration workers, youth workers, various hotline assistants etc, etc, etc.
They really do get paid fuck all.
And a high incarceration rate means government spending not going to these people.
Let's do some rough math on how many of these people you could get if you could bring your incarceration rate down to the rest of us using my country (australia) as an example.
Google says it costs $43.8k average to incarcerate an American for a year. $87K for any of the above professions seems more than fair to me.
2 incarcerations = 1 worker to benefit society.
Your incarceration rate is well over 3x my country but I'll make it 3x for ease
1,808,100/3 = 600k incarcerated with 1.2 million not incarcerated.
Divide the no longer incarcerated number by 2.
600,000 Drug and alcohol workers, social workers, mental health workers, public outreach workers, financial counsellors, integration workers, youth workers, various hotline assistants etc, that you're missing out on.
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