>That must have been an interesting Op-ed because Europe's crime rate is
>already substantially lower than the US's. Their incarceration rate is
>lower, their respective criminal justice systems are less punitive AND their
>crime rate is lower.
Are you sure? I thought that European property crime rates were comparable to the U.S. - it was only in murder that the U.S. is an outlier (though less so recently than 5 or 10 years ago).
Doug