Another polarized mind. Black or white, devoid of gray and devoid of gray matter. Why don't you take this up with DUD, you can have a Jethro convention, how does that sound sugar?
Polarized??? Rule of Law. Innocent or Guilty? What percentage of those incarcerated are guilty of the crime??? Not that that should matter to you. Logic has no place in a debate with you, nor should it, huh. It's all about feelings, right Sugar? Not just anybody's feelings, but your feelings, is that it? What is Gray to you, supposition or circumstance?
YES, polarized, pea brain...YOU...
There is basically one constant throughout history; human nature and human foible. When violent crime rates stay the same, or decrease, yet incarceration rates quadruple, we can deduce that human nature and human foible is not the cause. Then, intelligent and capable adults need to examine other factors.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Calm down Sally. Focus and then try to clearly state your position. Crime statistics are not constant. They rise and fall. What does directly effect crime, be it economical, political, Emotional, whatever are related to quality of Life, and current events, environment, Weather, monkey see, monkey do, what ever. Violent crime is a threat to society as a whole and should be dealt with strictly as opposed to liberally. You may argue for methods that produce true reform freely. We supposedly live in a Federal Republic which may be the very best environment to establish just Laws by the consent of the governed. I humbly suggest you reevaluate your position on the Enumerated Powers of the Federal Government and consider supporting that safeguard of Liberty. Try to think more Federalism rather than Nationalism. They are not compatible.