The U.S. Police State
According to the Bureau of Justice http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
“On June 30, 2006--
-- 2,245,189 prisoners were held in Federal or State prisons or in local jails -- an increase of 2.8% from midyear 2005, less than the average annual growth of 3.4% since yearend 1995.
-- there were an estimated 497 prison inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents -- up from 411 at yearend 1995. “
While we are at it lets make a point about making facts lie -
this was published about June 30, 2006. If we are to believe the Bureau's number of 497 inmates per 100,000 our population at the time would be almost 452 Million.
X = Prison Population
Y = U.S. Population
Z = Percent of Population in Prison
X / Y = Z
2,245,189 / Y = 0.00497 [497 per 100,000]
2,245,189 = 0.00497 x Z [0.00497z]
Z = 451,748,289
However, The U.S. Census Bureau made this release on October 12, 2006 claiming only 300 Million.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/007616.html
In reality we come out FAR worse than their stat suggests.
2,245,189 / 300,000,000 = 0.00748 [748 per 100,000]
Yes, we have nearly 1% of our population in prison. That doesn’t include people on probation or parole. That number was a striking 7 million in the U.S. at the end of 2005 according to the Justice Department [via The Washington Post]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113000912.html
Let’s take a look at the numbers according to The International Centre for Prison Studies.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/highest_to_lowest_rates.php
This study works with populations in prison as of December 2005.
China had 1,548,498 – 2,500,000 depending on what you include as prison. Let’s take the whole ball of wax and say 2.5M. That puts China at 189 per 100,000 people incarcerated.
At that time we had 2,193,798 prisoners. This put us at 737 per 100,000 people. Meaning per capita we have over 4 times more prisoners.
I think it is time we start a little reality based reality in this nation. Pull our heads out of our asses and look around us. This is not the America of our forefathers. This is America in the grasp of an insidious fascist revolution.
Our forefathers saw this as a possible outcome and gave us the means to fight back.
Will we?
B
According to the Bureau of Justice http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm
“On June 30, 2006--
-- 2,245,189 prisoners were held in Federal or State prisons or in local jails -- an increase of 2.8% from midyear 2005, less than the average annual growth of 3.4% since yearend 1995.
-- there were an estimated 497 prison inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents -- up from 411 at yearend 1995. “
While we are at it lets make a point about making facts lie -
this was published about June 30, 2006. If we are to believe the Bureau's number of 497 inmates per 100,000 our population at the time would be almost 452 Million.
X = Prison Population
Y = U.S. Population
Z = Percent of Population in Prison
X / Y = Z
2,245,189 / Y = 0.00497 [497 per 100,000]
2,245,189 = 0.00497 x Z [0.00497z]
Z = 451,748,289
However, The U.S. Census Bureau made this release on October 12, 2006 claiming only 300 Million.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/007616.html
In reality we come out FAR worse than their stat suggests.
2,245,189 / 300,000,000 = 0.00748 [748 per 100,000]
Yes, we have nearly 1% of our population in prison. That doesn’t include people on probation or parole. That number was a striking 7 million in the U.S. at the end of 2005 according to the Justice Department [via The Washington Post]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113000912.html
Let’s take a look at the numbers according to The International Centre for Prison Studies.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/highest_to_lowest_rates.php
This study works with populations in prison as of December 2005.
China had 1,548,498 – 2,500,000 depending on what you include as prison. Let’s take the whole ball of wax and say 2.5M. That puts China at 189 per 100,000 people incarcerated.
At that time we had 2,193,798 prisoners. This put us at 737 per 100,000 people. Meaning per capita we have over 4 times more prisoners.
I think it is time we start a little reality based reality in this nation. Pull our heads out of our asses and look around us. This is not the America of our forefathers. This is America in the grasp of an insidious fascist revolution.
Our forefathers saw this as a possible outcome and gave us the means to fight back.
Will we?
B
2 comments:
Hopefully. Like Ron Paul (R-TX) says, the only danger may be that we realize it all too late.
That's sorta an American trade mark isn't it?
Thanks for your comment and welcome to DRTC.
B
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