Despite Crime Rates Hitting Historic Lows in 39 States, Prison Populations Have Increased [decarceration is Incompatible with the Bi-partisan Goals of Racism White Supremacy]

From [HERE] The U.S. criminal legal system stands at a crossroads. The United States remains a world leader in incarceration, locking up its citizens at a far higher rate than any other industrialized nation.1

Between 1972 and 2009, the number of people imprisoned grew nearly 700%,2 while crime rates declined dramatically after peaking in 1991.3Imprisonment levels slowly scaled back, achieving a 25% decline between 2009 and 2021.4 Then, the prison population has resumed its growth, according to the most recently available data. The prison population grew in 2022 and in 2023, 39 states increased their prison populations.5

The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a seismic increase in the most serious crime, homicide, which has fortunately declined to pre-pandemic levels. By 2024, homicide rates were 49% lower than their peak level in 1991. Violent and property crime rates overall have reached historic lows: 2024’s violent crime rate was 53% lower than its peak-1991 level and the property crime rate was 66% lower.6

While crime rates are at historic lows, Americans deserve greater levels of community safety. A growing number of elected officials at the local, state, and federal levels have moved to overturn successful criminal justice reforms and revert to the failed playbook of mass incarceration, while the federal government has cut funding for important crime-prevention programs.7Instead, policymakers should respond to crime upticks with evidence-based responses, while correcting the counterproductive, costly, and cruel responses of the past.

Excessive reliance on imprisonment in the United States is ineffective at addressing crime, diverts resources from effective public safety investments, upends family stability, contributes to trauma, and disproportionately harms communities of color.8 A vast body of research has established that we can advance community safety while reducing prison admissions as well as scaling back sentences for both those entering prisons and those already there.9 . . .

The United States has made only modest progress toward ending mass incarceration amidst a historic crime drop. By year end 2024, violent crime rates reported to the police had plummeted to half of their 1990s levels, and property crime rates fell even further—just as crime rates have fallen in many other countries that did not increase imprisonment levels.23 But U.S. imprisonment levels continued to increase for nearly two decades while crime rates fell, and the modest level of decarceration since appears to be in jeopardy. [MORE]

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