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HiPointDem

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4. and we lock up way more people per capita than brazil. especially poor people.

Reply to Recursion (Reply #3)

Thu May 23, 2013, 04:21 AM

May 2013

716/100,000 v. 260/100,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

yet still the crime rate in my poor white/hispanic neighborhood is increasing.

not to put too fine a point on it, in my short block of 10 houses, 5 have had their cars burgled and 2 have had their houses burgled, + various have had things stolen from their yards.

so where i sit, crime is not going down. it's going up.

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"If current trends continue, US will be as unequal as Brazil in Obama's 2nd term" [View all] HiPointDem May 2013 OP

We have got to start prosecuting the god damn billionaires. Initech May 2013 #1

who is this 'we'? HiPointDem May 2013 #2

Our crime rate has fallen as inequality has increased Recursion May 2013 #3

and we lock up way more people per capita than brazil. especially poor people. HiPointDem May 2013 #4

+100 davidn3600 May 2013 #6

it's about 1% of the population locked up/under various kinds of custody, which is about 3 HiPointDem May 2013 #7

good post. beopenminded May 2013 #13

Two words.. Fumesucker May 2013 #5

+1 woo me with science May 2013 #14

And the Republicans would still call him a socialist. Tseko May 2013 #8

publicly. but they know he's not, that's just for the rubes. HiPointDem May 2013 #9

I bring this up to Repug friends Freddie May 2013 #10

of course. and even if it were happening, their answer would be more of the same, just as it HiPointDem May 2013 #11

'And Baltimore is just like North Korea'... SidDithers May 2013 #12