{"id":4115,"date":"2019-09-10T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2019-09-10T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:57:30","slug":"criminologists-mislead-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4115","title":{"rendered":"Criminologists Mislead Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/274840\/criminologists-mislead-us-walter-williams\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/prison.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between 1991 and 2017, the nationwide violent crime rate fell from 758 cases to 382 cases per 100,000 people. Despite the evidence that higher incarceration reduces crime rates, many criminologists argue that &#8220;mass incarceration&#8221; has actually &#8220;took minority men out of their neighborhoods, stripped them of voting rights, destabilized families, and sapped already-paltry economic resources from struggling communities.&#8221; Wright and DeLisi say that &#8220;Such claims could seem plausible only if one believes \u2014 contrary to evidence and common sense \u2014 that career criminals contribute positively to their neighborhoods, enjoy stable and functional families, vote, and work. What they did, in reality, was to prey on their neighbors.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/274840\/criminologists-mislead-us-walter-williams\">Criminologists Mislead Us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1991 and 2017, the nationwide violent crime rate fell from 758 cases to 382 cases per 100,000 people. Despite the evidence that higher incarceration reduces crime rates, many criminologists argue that &#8220;mass incarceration&#8221; has actually &#8220;took minority men out of their neighborhoods, stripped them of voting rights, destabilized families, and sapped already-paltry economic resources &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4115\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Criminologists Mislead Us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacklivesmatter","category-crime","category-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}