Well, I remember Houston doing some shenanigans with their police reports, redesignating some crimes and voila! the crime rates went down.
Washington is doing the same thing…well, something similar:
Washington State closes prison then celebrates ‘one of the lowest rates of incarceration in the nation’
The department announced the closure of Larch Corrections Center in Clark County, a medium-security prison that holds 240 inmates. The closure is in response to what the DOC claims is a decreasing prison population. According to the department, despite the massive amount of crime, only 70 percent of the beds in the agency’s 12 prisons in the entire state are occupied.
DOC Secretary Cheryl Strange touted the closure, saying that the state has “one of the lowest rates of incarceration in the nation” due to having “worked diligently to lower recidivism rates create better neighbors and ensure that incarcerated individuals don’t return to us once they get out.”
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I just KNOW that guy has ocean front property in Arizona that he’s trying to sell….
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Washington Democrats have also been pushing to release level 3 sex offenders, deemed the “worst of the worst,” into neighborhoods without informing the residents. Their goal is to close the prison on McNeil Island. Earlier this year, Democratic Governor Jay Inslee vetoed parts of a bill that would have required tribes and communities to receive advance notice if one of these sexually violent predators is relocated into their neighborhoods.
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Hide yer kids, hide yer wife…
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