The United States jails more of our citizens than any other country. 1 in every 20 Americans will get arrested in their life-time. Once again, money is the motivation to keep our state and federal prisons full to keep prison factories full of cheap labor workers who earn an average of $2 per day.

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And that's what makes america relatively safe. Last time america went easy on crime, you had the 70s-90s crimewave. Then they started to crackdown, and you had the low-crime era of the past two decades.

... and now, following this narrative, they're going easy on crime again. Crime rates in cities like San Francisco are already rising again.