A small number of criminals account for a huge share of crime. In Sweden, 1% of the population commits 63% of violent crimes. Just 8% of criminals in Britain rack up 50% of all convictions. 60-70% of gun crime in Washington DC comes from a few hundred people. 327 people in New York committed a third of shoplifting offences. We know who these people are, because they've already been caught multiple times. The average prisoner in a British jail has committed 41 offences. The average federal offender in the US has 6 previous convictions. The problem is that we keep offering them chances. 30% of those released from British prisons reoffend within a year. Over a decade, this rises to 75%. The ten year reoffending rate for state prisoners in the US is 82%. Deterring these people clearly hasn't worked. We aren't rehabilitating them. When people are caught, convicted, punished, and released before reoffending over and over again, something is clearly wrong with our theory of crime prevention. There is an alternative: taking them off the streets. Incapacitation works. Small rises in incarceration produce results by removing the most serious repeat offenders from the streets. It's not particularly hard to find examples — see, for instance, the 85% drop in thefts from cars in an area of central London after a five man gang was arrested by the local police force. And it's not hard to find empirical backing, either. One 1996 paper on the effects of prison population size on crime rates found that each additional year of time served by a criminal prevented 1.2 violent crimes and 6.7 property crimes. This small number of offenders completely distort life for the rest of us. If they were unable to offend, we could slash spending on private security — everything from CCTV to security guards, tags and burglar alarms. We could take fewer precautions in our own lives, walking where we want to, when we want to. And we could do it while living just as safely as we do today, or safer. Living in dangerous, crime ridden cities is a choice we don't have to make.

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