💬 Opinion 3d ago · Steven Greenhut

California's Prison Reform Experiment Worked. The State's Crime Rate Has Fallen by 27% in 15 Years.

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California's Prison Reform Experiment Worked. The State's Crime Rate Has Fallen by 27% in 15 Years.
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For those of us who are more interested in policy than politics, it's frustrating to try a rational discussion about any issue once it's caught up in a partisan maelstrom. Few matters are more given to hysteria than crime, for the obvious reason that everyone (except criminals) is against it—and politicians are incentivized to use crime-related policy to score political points.
We have to await the passage of time to analyze which anti-crime policies worked, which created unintended consequences

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