DOMESTIC POLICY CRIME AND DRUGS

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DOMESTIC POLICY CRIME AND DRUGS

• BY DYLON LARSEN

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IssuesCrime in America

• In 2006 there were 17,034 murders about one per
  17,500
• residents. An increase of 1.6 from the
  previous year.
• With Violent crimes Increasing by 1.9 from the
  previous year.
• According to the FBI uniform crime report about
  11.4 million crimes were documented in 2006
• 90 of these crimes were property damage such as
  burglary or car theft.
• 10 were violent crimes such as rape, robbery
  aggravated assault.

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Crowded prisons

• In order to decrees the rate of crime the
  government enacted the law enforcement act that
  made sentences longer and required life in prison
  after getting 3 felonies.
• In 2006 there were over 2.25 million people in
  jail and increase of 3 from the previous year.
• While women in prison jumped almost 5 a trend
  that has been increasing in the last 5 years.
• Many Americans believe that the unfair
  imprisonment and excessively long punishments are
  a waste of taxpayer money.
• It costs 40,000 dollars to imprison one person
  for a year.

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Drugs and Guns

• The use and sale of illegal drugs such as
  cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin contributes
  greatly to violent crime.
• Along with the sale of drugs comes violent gun
  crimes and sales of illegal weapons.To stop the
  gun crimes the government made the sale of
  automatic weapons to be illegal.
• Columbians dominated the drug market in the 1980s
  and 1990s but now the Mexican cartel dominates
  have demanded more law enforcement along the
  borders and drug trafficking.
• The violence associated with is not caused by
  drugs themselves but the illegal activity that
  surrounds there sale and consumptions
• Many experts believe that legalization of certain
  drugs then drug related thefts and crimes would
  decline.

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Online Crime

• As the internet became more popular and a part of
  our daily lives in the late 1990s opened a
  window for people to commit new crimes.
• Such as identity theft, fraud, credit card scams
  and sex crimes especially against vulnerable
  children . Online crimes alone have there own
  special force of law enforcement to bust
  criminals

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Policy solutions

• The policy solutions being utilized today are
• Offering rehabilitation to any offender with drug
  related crimes
• Allowing prisoners to take college courses or
  learn a trade
• Offering Probation and diversion services
• Increasing law enforcement
• Harsher punishments

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Impact of these Solutions

• These solutions have made a large impact on
  society but it still isnt enough .
• They enacted the law enforcement act that helped
  out some but it cause more problems for the
  prison and court systems.
• The rehabilitation programs have made a slight
  impact but with lack of funding and facilities
  many criminals are just waiting in jail until
  they can get into a treatment program.
• Educating the criminals have also helped them get
  employed when they are released from
  incarceration.

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Impact on the Government

• The policy has been very expensive and has cost
  the government multi millions.
• The state and federal prisons have become
  overcrowded witch causes local jails to become
  overcrowded.
• Overcrowding causes many of problems in the
  prisons such as an increase in violence and
  riots, and a shortage on staff.
• Federal funds are running out for the prisons
  witch result in poor living conditions for the
  prisoners.

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Opinion on the solution

• I believe that the governed is trying and doing a
  good job in most places but not hard enough or
  in the right places. They need to quit wasting so
  much time busting low level street dealers and
  spend more time busting the main cartel, murders,
  and rapists.
• Filling our prison with people who are drug
  attics isn't what we should be doing instead of
  incarserating them we need to offer them
  rehabilitation and strict probation . If they
  dont want to do so or follow the rules then lock
  them up .
• The government also needs to legalize and tax
  marijuana and quit prosecuting people with
  marijuana charges . If we were to legalize
  marijuana it would create a 7 trillion dollar
  industry and with that tax money alone we could
  provide all the facilities and workers to
  actually rehabilitate our criminals in a humane
  matter and create a better society.
• Getting our society free from drugs would make
  the untited states a much better place to live
  and the crime rate would dramatically decrease.