> But violent crime has been going steadily downward in the U.S. for 20
> years.
No need to stop now! :-)
> I'm still not sure how you got to "vast majority" of
> perpetrators not in jail.
The numbers I saw were something like 8M violent crime reports, 2M total in jail/prison with "violent criminal" being strictly less than 2M ... unless it's really a small number of criminals getting away with lots of violent crime, my statement stands.
/jordan