Today's lesson in correlation...

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MSNBC's Hayes: 'Frustrating' That 'More People in Prison' While 'Crime is Going Down'

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wi...#ixzz2aTBkSmCq

What I find most frustrating is what we have seen is incarceration go up at the same time that crime is going down, and yet the fear level is still stoked, even though what we have objectively is less murders every year, we have less crime, we are living in a safer society, and we are putting more people in prison.

seriously?

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Ah, the return of "The Butterfield Effect"! These people never learn. Back in the 90's Fox Butterfield wrote a series of articles on this, calling it a "paradox" of crime rates falling while incarcerations are up, never considering that the tougher sentencing "might" have reduced crime by reducing the number of criminals on the streets. (he's still getting laughed at about it)

Here's another example I read recently:

“Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, San Francisco's homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s.”

Uh, you think more homeless might be going to to San Francisco because there are so many handouts?

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mind numbing

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