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12-28-2011, 12:38 PM
http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/12/27/tougher-drug-laws-mean-nearly-1-in-3-arrested-by-age-23/
Raw Story reports:
Nearly one in three Americans will already have been arrested by the age of 23, recent research suggests.
A study analyzing data from the federal government’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that 30.2 percent of 23-year-olds reported being arrested for something more serious that a traffic violation.
It’s the first time since the 1960s that researchers have tried to determine how often young people are arrested. A similar study in 1965 found that only 22 percent reported being arrested by age 23.
* Five times more Americans are incarcerated now than in the 1960s.
Clearly the State is winning the war against the American people it has waged for the past 40 years. The State hates you, it hates your children, and it will do everything in its power to ensure you remain an obedient slave. I’m not sure what kind of statistics it will take before the American population wakes up to the fact that they are living in a police state.
Even if you think that drugs should be banned “to protect the children” – the facts of the matter are that your kids will one day become teenagers themselves. Are you confident that your own kids will never dabble in drugs when you aren’t looking over their shoulder? Do you want your own children to face the full wrath of the American police state because they took a few hits off a bong at a house party?
But suppose your children don’t touch drugs at all, take a look at what could happen when the police go on a witch hunt:
Unarmed 54-Year-Old Bloodied In Raid, no drugs found, no charges filed.
Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid
Police ‘Strike Force’ Shoots Man Armed with Golf Club Over His Roommate’s Drugs
69 Year Old Man Shot Dead In Drug Raid, No Drugs Reported To Be Found
76 Year Old Man Shot Dead In Botched Drug Raid, Son Charged with Simple Possession of Heroin
etc.. etc.. etc..
Copying a previous post I wrote on this subject, which highlights the fact that victimless crime constitutes roughly 86% of the federal prison population.
The 2009 federal prison population consisted of:
Drugs 50.7%, Public-order 35.0%, Violent 7.9%, Property 5.8%, Other .7%
Drug offenses are self-explanatory, but the public-order offenses also fall under the victimless crimes category. Public order offenses include such things as immigration, weapons charges, public drunkenness, selling lemonade without a license, dancing in public, feeding the homeless without a permit etc..
The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world, 756 per 100,000 of the national population. The world population in 2008 is estimated at 6,750 million (United Nations); set against a world prison population of 9.8 million this produces a world prison population rate of 145 per 100,000 (158 per 100,000 if set against a world prison population of 10.65 million).
In 2008, according to the Department of Justice, there were 7,308,200 persons in the US corrections system, of whom 4,270,917 were on probation, 828,169 were on parole, 785,556 were in jails, and 1,518,559 were in state and federal prisons. This means that the US alone is responsible for holding roughly 15% of all the prisoners in the world.
In other words, 1 in 42 Americans is under correctional supervision. This constitutes over 2% of the entire US population. That percentage jumps up drastically if we limit the comparison to working aged adult males, of which there are around 100 million. Over 5% of the adult male population is under some form of correctional supervision, alternatively stated, 1 in 20 adult males is under correctional supervision in the US. One in 36 adult Hispanic men is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15 adult black men is too; as is one in nine black men ages 20 to 34.
Full Story (http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/12/27/tougher-drug-laws-mean-nearly-1-in-3-arrested-by-age-23/).
Raw Story reports:
Nearly one in three Americans will already have been arrested by the age of 23, recent research suggests.
A study analyzing data from the federal government’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that 30.2 percent of 23-year-olds reported being arrested for something more serious that a traffic violation.
It’s the first time since the 1960s that researchers have tried to determine how often young people are arrested. A similar study in 1965 found that only 22 percent reported being arrested by age 23.
* Five times more Americans are incarcerated now than in the 1960s.
Clearly the State is winning the war against the American people it has waged for the past 40 years. The State hates you, it hates your children, and it will do everything in its power to ensure you remain an obedient slave. I’m not sure what kind of statistics it will take before the American population wakes up to the fact that they are living in a police state.
Even if you think that drugs should be banned “to protect the children” – the facts of the matter are that your kids will one day become teenagers themselves. Are you confident that your own kids will never dabble in drugs when you aren’t looking over their shoulder? Do you want your own children to face the full wrath of the American police state because they took a few hits off a bong at a house party?
But suppose your children don’t touch drugs at all, take a look at what could happen when the police go on a witch hunt:
Unarmed 54-Year-Old Bloodied In Raid, no drugs found, no charges filed.
Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid
Police ‘Strike Force’ Shoots Man Armed with Golf Club Over His Roommate’s Drugs
69 Year Old Man Shot Dead In Drug Raid, No Drugs Reported To Be Found
76 Year Old Man Shot Dead In Botched Drug Raid, Son Charged with Simple Possession of Heroin
etc.. etc.. etc..
Copying a previous post I wrote on this subject, which highlights the fact that victimless crime constitutes roughly 86% of the federal prison population.
The 2009 federal prison population consisted of:
Drugs 50.7%, Public-order 35.0%, Violent 7.9%, Property 5.8%, Other .7%
Drug offenses are self-explanatory, but the public-order offenses also fall under the victimless crimes category. Public order offenses include such things as immigration, weapons charges, public drunkenness, selling lemonade without a license, dancing in public, feeding the homeless without a permit etc..
The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world, 756 per 100,000 of the national population. The world population in 2008 is estimated at 6,750 million (United Nations); set against a world prison population of 9.8 million this produces a world prison population rate of 145 per 100,000 (158 per 100,000 if set against a world prison population of 10.65 million).
In 2008, according to the Department of Justice, there were 7,308,200 persons in the US corrections system, of whom 4,270,917 were on probation, 828,169 were on parole, 785,556 were in jails, and 1,518,559 were in state and federal prisons. This means that the US alone is responsible for holding roughly 15% of all the prisoners in the world.
In other words, 1 in 42 Americans is under correctional supervision. This constitutes over 2% of the entire US population. That percentage jumps up drastically if we limit the comparison to working aged adult males, of which there are around 100 million. Over 5% of the adult male population is under some form of correctional supervision, alternatively stated, 1 in 20 adult males is under correctional supervision in the US. One in 36 adult Hispanic men is behind bars, based on Justice Department figures for 2006. One in 15 adult black men is too; as is one in nine black men ages 20 to 34.
Full Story (http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/12/27/tougher-drug-laws-mean-nearly-1-in-3-arrested-by-age-23/).