America Quote by Kevin Drum

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up…

— Dahlia Lithwick

A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its…

— L. Neil Smith

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody…

— Christiane Amanpour

What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and…

— Henry Rollins

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

— Kevin Drum

I have a message for all of you. The crime and violence that today afflicts America will soon - and I mean very soon…

— Donald Trump

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

— William Barr

“A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and police repression,…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China…

— Michelle Alexander

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

— Kathy Szeliga

“We have a system of terrorizing punishment meted out directly to more than two million people in prison and to another five million or…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

While crime is indeed up in some cities in the last month or so since the stay-at-home orders lifted, crime is nonetheless down overall…

— Heather Cox Richardson