[lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland reports and pics

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Wed May 2 11:19:41 PDT 2012


Wojtek writes:


>> Jordan: "I think it's clear from looking at the difference
>> between incarceration rates and victimization rates that
>> the vast majority of violent criminals are not in jail."
>
> [WS:] These do not have to add up.

I neither said nor implied that they do; I'm saying that since there are *so many more violent crimes* than prisoners (it's probably a factor of 5 or more), it must be the case that most of the criminals aren't in jail. Doug seemed to express that we've got enough of them in jail ("how many truely dangerous folk do we have?") ...

The answer is: more than we have in jail/prison!

/jordan



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