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liberal_hack t1_j6f06ki wrote

Reply to comment by asaharyev in Crowds march through downtown Boston to protest police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis by jojenns

I mean harsher sentencing too. If you arrest someone for a minor crime and destroy their life, and then shortly let them out yeah you're going to have more problems.

I'm just saying if you went really draconian and locked up long-term anyone that commits a serious crime you would probably have lower crime rates, at the cost of liberty

>What has reduced crime is building a stronger social safety net so those who find themselves in desperate situations can get support from the state instead of other illegal alternatives

This is true but it doesn't address the people that commit crime for reasons other than addressing their own survival needs, which is most crime.

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asaharyev t1_j6f0zcn wrote

Harsher sentences do not reduce crime. This has been shown in multiple studies, and is easily searchable. Here is just one of many studies showing this.

Stricter policing does not reduce crime, and often makes it worse.

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liberal_hack t1_j6f8szk wrote

What is the mechanism for locking up a criminal for life increasing crime rates?

A place like Singapore with really draconian sentencing and enforcement has pretty low crime rates.

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asaharyev t1_j6fl1hy wrote

The US has an incarceration rate 3x that of Singapore. We're already more draconian than your example.

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liberal_hack t1_j6fvwq5 wrote

We incarcerate people and then let them back out without reintegrating them well. Singapore just executes a lot of people. Singapore is definitely a more draconian legal system.

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