Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Manhattan is overrun with criminals and nobody is safe! -- or that’s what certain tabloids and newspapers would have you believe. Through the use of misleading statistics and extraordinary exceptions, the Mayor of New York has been successfully depicted as 'soft-on-crime' even though the city's crime rate is at an all-time low.
Drug War-Related Homicides In The US Average At Least 1,100 a Year Full Extent of Carnage Unknowable Because US Government Doesn't Track Violent Crime Linked To The War On Drugs Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The stubborn resistance against entertaining any other options beyond a fundamentalist adherence to prohibition for dealing with drug use in the United States is cloaked in an arrogant denial of the human costs of the drug war and the possibility that ending it would lead to less, not more, death. The US, by some estimates now spends about $40 billion a year at home and abroad waging its war on drugs and has imprisoned currently up to 400,000 people on drug-related charges — the vast majority of them nonviolent offenders.
In Russian and French Prisons Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.