In short, before ending up in prison, the vast majority of the perpetrators, the supposedly downtrodden and marginalised, have at least five prior arrests, with almost half having 10 or more, and one in seven, 20 or more. At which point, the phrase that comes to mind is the nature of the beast.
Other phrases may conceivably occur to readers.
Those with a taste for grim humour are steered towards this quite strong indication of how a crime rate can improve when just three burglars – with over 200 convictions between them – flee the police in a stolen car before colliding with something solid and ceasing to be.
An illustration, one of many, of how a very large fraction of crime could be prevented by dealing decisively with a surprisingly small number of persistent offenders.
Oh, there’s more.
Gee. Thats too bad. I’m sure glad it’s not like that here ….
It’s a well known fact that all of these perps were just turning their lives around…
One of the big differentiators in recidivism is a punitive versus rehabilitation. Canada focuses on rehabilitation which gives us a lower rate of recidivism than the US. Our big problem at the moment is, you can’t rehabilitate if you don’t incarcerate, and our federal government puts the freedom of the perpetrator above the safety of their past and future victims.
“…how a very large fraction of crime could be prevented by dealing decisively with a surprisingly small number of persistent offenders…”
Yes. And it isn’t as if it is difficult to catch them, they’re MORONS. Most can’t find their own backside with both hands and a map.
Which means, of course, that the people supposedly in charge of preventing crime are not interested in preventing it. They are in fact busy making crime as bad as they possibly can.
One must them ask, why are they doing that?