California senator Kamala Harris, one of his leading rivals, hit Biden for backing the 1994 omnibus crime bill, which, she says, contributed to "Mass incarceration in this country." Harris herself has met criticism for being too tough on crime in her days as a prosecutor and as California attorney general.
America's high incarceration rate, goes another assertion, is driven by the unjust enforcement of "Low-level" and "Nonviolent" offenses, particularly drug crimes.
A January 2017 University of Chicago Crime Lab study found that, of those arrested for homicides or shootings in Chicago in 2015 and 2016, about "90 percent had at least one prior arrest, approximately 50 percent had a prior arrest for a violent crime specifically, and almost 40 percent had a prior gun arrest." On average, someone arrested for a homicide or shooting had nearly 12 prior arrests, the study noted-and almost 20 percent had more than 20 priors.
With so many of the nation's most serious crimes perpetrated by people with an active criminal-justice status-and with 83 percent of released prisoners arrested for a new crime within nine years of getting out-the safety benefits of incapacitation become startlingly clear.
America's incarceration numbers would be even higher if more perpetrators of serious crime were apprehended.
Since 2010, the U.S. has averaged about 1.2 million violent index crimes and 8.5 million property index crimes yearly.
Put differently, since 2010, about 5.1 million violent index crimes and 54.9 million property index crimes have gone unpunished-which works out to more than 7.5 million of these offenses yearly.
https://www.city-journal.org/mass-incarceration
America's high incarceration rate, goes another assertion, is driven by the unjust enforcement of "Low-level" and "Nonviolent" offenses, particularly drug crimes.
A January 2017 University of Chicago Crime Lab study found that, of those arrested for homicides or shootings in Chicago in 2015 and 2016, about "90 percent had at least one prior arrest, approximately 50 percent had a prior arrest for a violent crime specifically, and almost 40 percent had a prior gun arrest." On average, someone arrested for a homicide or shooting had nearly 12 prior arrests, the study noted-and almost 20 percent had more than 20 priors.
With so many of the nation's most serious crimes perpetrated by people with an active criminal-justice status-and with 83 percent of released prisoners arrested for a new crime within nine years of getting out-the safety benefits of incapacitation become startlingly clear.
America's incarceration numbers would be even higher if more perpetrators of serious crime were apprehended.
Since 2010, the U.S. has averaged about 1.2 million violent index crimes and 8.5 million property index crimes yearly.
Put differently, since 2010, about 5.1 million violent index crimes and 54.9 million property index crimes have gone unpunished-which works out to more than 7.5 million of these offenses yearly.
https://www.city-journal.org/mass-incarceration
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