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the math doesn’t check out.

Here’s the numbers.

According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, in 2022 there were about 380,000 arrests for violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault).

• The U.S. population is about 333 million.

• That works out to roughly 0.11% of the population arrested for a violent crime in a given year.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports that about 60% of state prisoners are serving time for violent offenses.

• In 2022, there were around 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons.

• That means about 700,000–750,000 people are imprisoned for violent crimes.

• As a share of the total U.S. population, that’s roughly 0.2%.

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awayslice 3mo ago 💬 2

OK, but if you kill off one percent of the population, there will still be 100% of the population left.

HODL 3mo ago

We don’t need to kill them all. Prison is fine for most.

YetAnotherAnon 3mo ago

The one argument against the death penalty that I find compelling is that sometimes people as wrongly convicted and executing innocent people should be avoided at all costs!

Corey Santa Diego 3mo ago

That assumes 0 repeat offenders.