E. J. McMahon for City Journal magazine writes about how stiffer penalties against offenders in NYC has made some drastic improvements in the overall crime rate and prison population:
“The results have been nothing less than spectacular: by one key measure, serious crime in the city has dropped 70 percent over the past 15 years.”
“For years, the Left has warned that tougher sentencing would create a syndrome of “mass incarceration†and the creation of a “prison-industrial complex.†But as the New York experience shows, the crackdown has worked on more than one level. Good policing and tough sentencing have pushed New York to a tipping point, deterring some potential malefactors from crime. Now, if crime goes down and stays down, the prison population should keep dropping as well.” (continue reading for all the details–very good informantion)
This completely flies in the face of Liberalism that suggest that stiffer penalties on crime are oppressive and in many cases racially biased towards Black Americans. Then they look for a Rodney King-type situation to further exploit their widespread bias claim. Let’s face it, we have been leading in this department for years. Anything that makes our young Black men think twice (and can be measured like in this article) before making the mistake of a lifetime , I am for completely.
