2007-09-21 16:40:38 · 12 answers · asked by docie555@yahoo.com 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
What's going on is this: the American family is no longer sacred. CPS has blurred the definition of abuse in order to take more kids from their parents, then the state gets more budget money by giving those kids to foster parents. The kids get kicked out of the system at 18 and usually have no skills, no family heritage, may have been physically abused, and they are the working age young adults who end up doing drugs because they don't like the way they feel, and they end up in prison for a lousy joint. Alcohol is a drug too as much as America doesn't like when you say that....the WAR ON DRUGS and the WAR on Families is tearing the threads of the fabric this great country was built on......sad sad state of affairs....
2007-09-21 17:10:28 · answer #1 · answered by Mysteri O 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
2.3 million committed some type of crime.
When the penalties for drug use/sales got harsher - the prison population went up. Not every one of the 2.3 million committed a violent crime - just some type of crime. Probably a lot are drug related.
2007-09-22 00:06:18 · answer #2 · answered by Boots 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crime soared in the late sixties and throughout most of the seventies. The public cried out "we want law and order" and our government responded promptly, mostly with new laws making annoyances crimes, violations into misdemeanors, and misdemeanors into felonies. After all, any lawmaker can be "tough on crime" by doubling the sentence of a particular act, but really does nothing to reduce the incidence of that crime, since most such acts are impulsive in nature with little forethought. Prevention of crime lies in the increase of the certainty of punishment, not the severity. Much tougher and more expensive to do...
2007-09-22 00:40:23 · answer #3 · answered by Aaron W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are too many petty laws on the books. If a group of hate mongers doesn't like the fact that other people are taking part in activities that they don't agree with, they lobby the government to make it illegal.
2007-09-22 10:33:12 · answer #4 · answered by Herr Raging Boehner. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A government by itself of itself and for itself. Figure this a
convict or one convicted of a felony cannot vote. you just
eliminated 2.3 million Americans who could otherwise turn
around the nation with a vote for change
2007-09-22 00:13:07 · answer #5 · answered by as4u2kis45 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's about 1% of the population.
I would guess they fought the law and the law won.
2007-09-22 00:31:10 · answer #6 · answered by El Scott 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2.3 million people are breaking the law.
2007-09-21 23:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ Leo ♥ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually a very small percentage of the overall population.
2007-09-22 00:05:58 · answer #8 · answered by smsmith500 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It appears the Criminal Justice System is working juuuuuuuuuust fine.
2007-09-22 00:22:50 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby D 2.0 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, people like to do crime, and are paying the consequenses for their actions.
2007-09-22 07:48:18 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋