Originally Posted by
aplcr0331
Not sure if it works?
Have you seen the crime rates? Other than skyrocketing murder rates since August of 2014 in some larger cities the overall crime rates are dropping precipitously. Especially since the high levels of crime we experienced in the 90's.
It. Works.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/crime-imprisonment-rates/486014/
We have an incarceration rate 10x that of, for example, Germany. Ours is the highest in the world.
The states with the biggest drop in crime rate (California, for example) are also the ones with the biggest decline in incarceration rate (from the link above).
So, no. It's by no means conclusive that the two are negatively correlated.