Thread 507402400

El Salvador is now the safest country in the western hemisphere due to mass incarceration. Legit went from the most fucking dangerous country in the western hemisphere TO THE SAFEST

The US did the same thing in 1994. Crime in the US was 3x worse overall and in many cities such as NYC, LA, etc almost 10 times worse.

Crime exploded in the late 60s/early 70s due to prison reforms & lead. Ever since the crime bill of 1994 US crime dropped immensely until the Covid pandemic.

Mass incarceration is the one policy everyone should agree with

>>507402400 (OP)
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>>507402400 (OP)
Law School indoctrinates students with marxism, that way the future judges of the nation treat criminals as victims, hurting the real victims a second time..
Human Right organizations (another branch of marxism) don't help either.
This is why the common rebuttal you'll hear to the graphic you just posted is calling Bukele a dictator, even though he keeps winning elections with more and more votes.

If you actually jail criminals for good, crime halts, what a crazy idea, right?

>>507405240
People who oppose these policies and benefits should be locked up themselves

>>507402400 (OP)

can't be any crime if we just dont write it down
>El Salvador you are genius!

>>507405240
Lawyer here. The "dictatorship" thing is because El Salvador's constitution prohibits consecutive terms as president, but because Bukele declared a "state of emergency", his judicial appointees said "ok, the constitution isn't valid right now, go ahead and run for a second term."

So, I can see both sides of it (which is one of the points behind law school). Arguably the proper thing for Bukele to have done was to mentor a successor who could continue his policies while he sat things out, and then run again in the next election when his interim president was prohibited from having a consecutive term.

But in the end IDGAF, I'm just glad Bukele is doing a great job there, and I hope there's a totally accidental sarin gas leak at CECOT while all the guards and other non-criminals are at an off-site party to celebrate Bukele's birthday or whatever. That would be epically funny and a net benefit for humanity.