FBI: Criminal Minds

Statement

In the US, 1 out of every 100 Americans are in jail. The total approximates 3 million people. 70 percent are in federal and state jails. 30 percent are in local and juvenile jails and there are an additional 5 million on probation or parole. In 2013, there were 189 violent crimes per 100,000 persons and 12 million people arrested.

Parenthetically, it is important to note, relative to drug legalization advocacy, a full one-third of the prison population is in jail for non-violent drug related offenses. Of the total incarcerated population approximately 3 percent or 73,000 are psycopaths in the style of popularized by the television program Criminal Minds.

Texas has the highest state prison population in the US with 156,000 prisoners. Of those, 4,700 may be classified as psycopaths.

Many people are not surprised when they learn in a declining economy budgets, for incarceration, increase in the short-term. This makes intuitive sense because crimes generally tend to increase in hard times.

What shocks many, however, is when they learn that in severe economic times, prison populations are granted parole and are released. Budgets are reoriented toward bread and butter concerns. Prisons disappear as a budget priority.

Argentina, Mexico, Cuba and Russia are recent historical examples. Prisoners were released during their respective economic collapse episodes and let loose on the population.

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In an economic implosion that means 73,000 psycopathic predators would be unleashed on American communities. Beheadings would be the least of American worries.

Yuri Orlov, an engineer and writer, experienced the economic collapse in Russia in 1989 and 1990. He detailed the impact of roving gangs of released prisoners and their impact on the community at large. Importantly, he says Russians were better prepared for the the shock of violence because they lived in multifamily housing and, thus were better able to protect themselves. The same can be said of Mexican, Cuban and Argentinian urban and rural living.

The US population, conversely, lives in widely dispersed single family homes making them more vulnerable to psycopathic predators and disruption of food and fuel delivery systems.

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