Thursday, June 19, 2008
Incarceration prevents crimes - Duh!
But, some have additional thoughts about that...
Earlier this year, at Investors Business Daily, Thomas Sowell wrote this and more:
"For more than two centuries, the political left has been preoccupied with the fate of criminals, often while ignoring or downplaying the fate of the victims of those criminals.
So it is hardly surprising that a recent New York Times editorial has returned to a familiar theme among those on the left, on both sides of the Atlantic, with its lament that 'incarceration rates have continued to rise while crime rates have fallen.'
Back in 1997, New York Times writer Fox Butterfield expressed the same lament under the headline 'Crime Keeps on Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling.' Then, as now, liberals seemed to find it puzzling that crime rates go down when more criminals are put behind bars."
