Crime Policy: Throw Away the Key
Two-thirds of felons released from prison are rearrested within three years, and yet our political leaders knowingly continue this dangerous game of catch-and-release. Violent crime rates are near 50-year lows, despite the recession, but the best way to lower them further is to keep known and convicted violent felons behind bars longer.
The problem is that most victims of violent crime come from the working and middle classes, while most politicians and federal judges live a more pampered and protected life. Wonder why they keep releasing violent predators everyone knows will strike again? Could it have anything to do with the fact that the released predators move back to working-class neighborhoods, and not the gated communities and metal-detector-laden office buildings of the elites?
Drawing on our many years working on anti-crime issues on Capital Hill and running a scrappy little nonprofit advocacy group that focused on anti-crime issues, our crime policy work at TL4A.com highlights measures that will protect innocent Americans from victimization, as well as policies to improve the lives of prisoners and ex-cons. Liberal politicians manifestly cannot be trusted with criminal justice matters. But those of us who want to separate violent felons from the law-abiding also have better ideas on how we can treat prisoners humanely and make their reintroduction into society more successful once prisoners have served appropriate sentences.
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