Damn, 1 in every 142 Americans is in prison...

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/06/prison ... .html">Are you next?</a>

Damn, 1 in every 142 Americans is in prison...</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well if you think about it, doesn't the US have reality TV shows about police busting criminals? Cops I think one of them is called.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Cops is also mostly reruns from 1994.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Either way, don't you find it at all strange that you would even have shows like that in the first place?</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Not really, firstly it sells, and secondly even without 1 in every 142 Americans in prison, due to the sheer size of the US there would be plenty enough crime to fill up an hour slot each day.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>One in three of those prisoners are in prison because of victimless crimes.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Where's Corporate Cops?</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That'd be cool too, but we'd have to find out how to make the fat white banker throw his cell phone at the cops.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>No offense, but I feel sorry for a society which finds anything like that the least bit entertaining. And yes it IS strange that they have shows like that on TV.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Better start feeling sorry for a lot of societies then. And no, it isn't, violence is actually a very common theme in the world..</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Dude, I'm talking about a reality TV show about cops busting criminals.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Not a suprise considering the prison system is its own industry with it own corporations that have their own publicly traded stocks, etc. "Get tough" laws sound nice, but they don't do a whole lot of good other than making certain people rich. Heck, even MS uses prison labor to package software...</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I wish the death penalty was used more often than it is but I know how unpopular a lot of my beliefs are. Crime prevention is all about deterrance which in most cases is fear of prison. We need to increase the fear of doing a crime either by a) increasing the existing penalty (making prisons worse than they already are-- making prison an even more hostile and undesirable place to go to) or b) replace the more serious crimes with death sentences rather than life in jail-- pretty much bump everything up a level or two.

The fear of death is the #2 fear in America (#1 being public speaking actually...but my info may be a little old) and like I said-- crime prevention is all about making people too afraid of the ramifications to do them.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>reality shows themselves are the downfall of society-- showcasing human suffering. The News stations have been doing it for decades. Suffering gets ratings</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>'eh, hey-- at least they're doing some good</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Then pardon me for not understanding at all what the problem is. Perhaps you could explain?</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Did it ever occur that some people don't think they will be caught, don't consider the government a threat, or really just don't give a goddamn?</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Stop being hortsighted. A user of drugs is obviously a buyer, hence he supported a crime ring of dealers and smugglers who not only blatently break the US's illegal substances laws but also commit numerous other illegal acts such as theft and murder, which are victimFULL crimes.

Where do you think your weed money goes? You're not feeding some person's starving kid i'll tell you that much.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>well there's not much you can do about them at all except give them a reason to fear</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>I can already tell that he'll just retort by saying drugs should be legal.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>If they don't care, or think it won't effect them, it's rather hard to envision them being afraid.</div>

[Manshoon]

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, and then we could get Crackers the Corprate Crime Chicken to bust him.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>what the heck are you getting at? Yes, there are people who could care less about the consequences of what they're doing and there's little anyone can do about that right now</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>If people don't fear punishment, then it's not a deterrance.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Exactly what Kupek said. People who don't care aren't going to be deterred.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Like Prohibition?</div>