the math doesn’t check out.
Discussion
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%.
OK, but if you kill off one percent of the population, there will still be 100% of the population left.
That assumes 0 repeat offenders.