Current Events > El Salvador cut it's homicide rate on half...

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"Here's an anecdote of one country with no source or comparative statistics to draw a conclusion from

Just saying"

America has more people locked up than literally every other country so idk what you want. Clearly locking people up doesn't solve anything

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2022/04/30/el-salvadors-president-has-locked-up-19000-people-in-a-month

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/02/16/latin-americas-prisons-are-overcrowded-and-violent

There's your sources

By aggressively throwing criminals in jail. 2% of the population is behind bars.

Japan also has low crime rates due to severe punishments for criminals.

Just saying

There's no mention in these articles of the murder rate being reduced, but there is mention of the significant problems caused by pursuing such a policy

In a region with high crime rates, citizens have long favoured their leaders treating suspected criminals with mano dura, or an iron fist. The most extreme example of this is in El Salvador. In March 2022 a state of emergency was declared by President Nayib Bukele, after a spike of gang-related killings. Some 100,000 people, or 2% of Salvadorean adults, are now behind bars. The countrys homicide rate has halved. Mr Bukeles approval rating is a whopping 90%, the highest in the region.

We can't throw da police in jail doe

On April 24th the Legislative Assembly, which the president controls, extended a state of emergency for a second month. Citizens are barred from gathering in groups outside. The police no longer need to give an explanation when arresting people. Since the emergency powers came into force they have rounded up more than 19,000.

These are extreme crime riddled areas. I would support that if I lived there.

And per the article, overwhelming amount of people do support it

I can't read past that paragraph since the article is gated.

During an extraordinary session early on 27 March, the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly approved a "state of exception".[18] The order, which was initially set to last thirty days but has been extended twice,[19] suspended the rights of association and legal counsel, increased the amount of time that persons may be detained without being charged from three days to fifteen, and permitted the government to monitor citizens' communications without warrants.[18] However, Salvadoran law enforcement was accused of violating even the expanded limits of their powers.[11][17] The government also restricted the ability of judges to offer prisoners alternatives to pre-trial detention, like bail and house arrest.[20]

Members of Nuevas Ideas passed new rules that increase prison sentences for convicted gang lords to forty to forty-five years (previously six to nine) and twenty to thirty years for other members (previously three to five)[10] and reduce the age of criminal responsibility, previously sixteen years old,[20] to twelve.[19] They also passed a law that threatens anyone who reproduces or disseminates messages from gangs, including news media, with ten to fifteen years in prison.[21]

The government deployed additional police and military forces,[22] raiding houses and creating checkpoints surrounding neighborhoods with known gang presences.[8] Soldiers checked everyone for identification cards and proof of address,[17] searched their vehicles and backpacks,[11] and refused to let anyone enter or leave without what they considered a legitimate reason.[17] Anyone considered suspicious was forced to strip so soldiers could check for gang-related tattoos.[17]

Japan also has low crime rates due to severe punishments for criminals.

Yes I'm sure our already over capacity prisons and jails could accommodate a couple million more inmates no biggie

El Salvador cut it's homicide rate on half...
By aggressively throwing criminals in jail. 2% of the population is behind bars.

Japan also has low crime rates due to severe punishments for criminals.

Just saying

Its true though. Whether you agree wth what theyre doing or not, the group of Americans that kill more people than anyone else per capita is cops.

ah yes, but Dr. Salvador has doubled his homocide rate

theyre locking up violent criminals, though, not random minorities and jaywalkers, big difference

funny how this was ignored by TC

Breh everything I post is always backed by facts. I've never fudged numbers.

theyre locking up violent criminals, though,

Even the articles TC has cited do not assume that to be true

There's literally an entire game series dedicated to shitting on Japan's broken ass justice system.

These are extreme crime riddled areas. I would support that if I lived there.

And per the article, overwhelming amount of people do support it

so youre just gonna assume they began locking up minorities and jaywalkers ?

We can't throw da police in jail doe

Do gangs like MS-13 and 18 Street have a de facto leader?

There's literally an entire game series dedicated to shitting on Japan's broken ass justice system.

They locked up anyone with a gang tattoo. The ones that ran and weren't locked up at the time started causing problems and that's when they decided to starve the ones in prison. A day or so the ran sacking the whole country looking for more of them anyone hiding any would also be arrested and rewards were being given to those who reported or turned them in. It was encouraged for parents/relatives to turn in family members and they would still be rewarded. They then provided citizens with jobs to clean up the country by painting over and cleaning out gang graffiti. They even went as far as paying citizens to destroy ang related tombstones.

My mother in law went last year she said it was the first time in years she was finally able to walk at night with no problems or fear of anything happening to her. Tourism has increased a lot as well. Business are doing better since majority had to pay a quota to gangs for being on "their turf"

Salvadorians have also just about stopped coming to the US illegally as well since they're doing much better now.