{"id":8387,"date":"2023-01-12T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8387"},"modified":"2023-01-17T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:59:34","slug":"the-price-of-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8387","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley&#8217;s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-economic-and-human-costs-of-protecting-criminals-police-shoplifting-arrest-violent-defendant-offenders-11673387450\">piece<\/a>, &#8220;The Economic and Human Costs of Protecting Criminals,&#8221; breaks down the impact of progressive sentencing reforms enacted across the country to achieve social justice.\u00a0 The elimination of cash bail&#8230;the conversion of theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors&#8230;various &#8220;second chance&#8221; or so called smart sentencing laws enacted by democrat politicians to sentence habitual criminals to rehab rather than prison or jail, have come at a very high price.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There\u2019s little doubt that these policies, promoted in the name of social justice for the poor, result in more crimes being committed by people who otherwise would be behind bars. A <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3541091\">study<\/a> by two professors at the University of Utah, Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles, concluded that \u201cafter more generous release procedures were put in place, the number of released defendants charged with committing new crimes increased by 45%.\u201d Proponents insist that only \u201clow-level\u201d and \u201cnonviolent\u201d offenders can take advantage of these reforms, but the study found that \u201cthe number of pre-trial releases charged with committing new violent crimes increased by an estimated 33%.\u201d Shoplifters don\u2019t always stick to shoplifting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Those who want to defund the police and drastically reduce the size of the prison population complain that states tend to spend more money per inmate than per pupil. But the relevant comparison is between the costs of incarceration and costs of letting lawbreakers run rampant in society.<\/p>\n<p>A 2021 paper published by the University of Chicago\u2019s Journal of Law and Economics put annual spending on policing and corrections at about $250 billion. Meanwhile, a study released the same year by the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation \u201cconservatively estimated\u201d that the yearly cost of personal and property crimes in the U.S. is $2.6 trillion. By that comparison, it\u2019s hard to conclude that we spend too much money on law enforcement.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As retailers across the country like Walgreens have closed stores in democrat-controlled cities due to huge losses from\u00a0 consequence-free shoplifting and stores such as Starbucks forced to close because of violence against employees and customers, it is the urban poor who suffer the most.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What\u2019s even harder is putting a price on the psychic burden of crime\u2014the constant fear that you or a loved one will become a victim in neighborhoods where street gangs are in charge and gunshots are a familiar sound. Tying the hands of police, prosecutors and judges doesn\u2019t help the poor, who are the most likely victims of the criminals being coddled. Most poor people are law-abiding, and they don\u2019t deserve to be dismissed as an afterthought by social-justice advocates and their allies on the political left. Progressive policies that treat lawbreakers like victims and cops like suspects aren\u2019t only counterproductive but expensive. And some people will wind up paying with their lives.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley&#8217;s recent piece, &#8220;The Economic and Human Costs of Protecting Criminals,&#8221; breaks down the impact of progressive sentencing reforms enacted across the country to achieve social justice.\u00a0 The elimination of cash bail&#8230;the conversion of theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors&#8230;various &#8220;second chance&#8221; or so called smart sentencing laws enacted by democrat politicians to sentence habitual criminals to rehab rather than prison or jail, have come at a very high price. &#8220;There\u2019s little doubt that these policies, promoted in the name of social justice for the poor, result in more crimes being committed by people who otherwise would be behind bars. A study by two professors at the University of Utah, Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles, concluded that \u201cafter more generous release procedures were put in place, the number of released defendants charged with committing new crimes increased by 45%.\u201d Proponents insist that only \u201clow-level\u201d and \u201cnonviolent\u201d offenders can take advantage of these reforms, but the study found that \u201cthe number of pre-trial releases charged with committing new violent crimes increased by an estimated 33%.\u201d Shoplifters don\u2019t always stick to shoplifting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bail","category-sentencing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Price of Social Justice - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8387\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Price of Social Justice - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley&#8217;s recent piece, &#8220;The Economic and Human Costs of Protecting Criminals,&#8221; breaks down the impact of progressive sentencing reforms enacted across the country to achieve social justice.\u00a0 The elimination of cash bail&#8230;the conversion of theft crimes from felonies to misdemeanors&#8230;various &#8220;second chance&#8221; or so called smart sentencing laws enacted by democrat politicians to sentence habitual criminals to rehab rather than prison or jail, have come at a very high price. &#8220;There\u2019s little doubt that these policies, promoted in the name of social justice for the poor, result in more crimes being committed by people who otherwise would be behind bars. 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