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by AngryData 438 days ago
The US has a 40% higher incarceration rate than Brazil.
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That may be part of why the US so much safer than Brazil, eg, 4x fewer homicides.
Now compare both incarceration rate and homicides with Canada and Europe.
Then how come the UK with 4x lower incarceration rate than the US also has 5x less homicides?
so what?