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RE: Article by Tigrrrrr illustrates my point about gun control
Posted on: November 22, 2017 at 10:40:34 CT
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Are mandatory minimums effective?
The evidence that they directly reduce crime is thin, according to a review by Northwestern University School of Law. Even in the case of New York City, which had one of the country’s most dramatic reductions in gun crime, some experts question how much greater public safety can be clearly attributed to these laws. University of California at Berkeley professor Michael Zimring studied the city’s historic crime decline from the ’90s into the 2000s, and found that 90 percent of the reduction in murders happened before mandatory minimums for gun possession were tightened up in 2006.
In 2013, President Obama issued an executive order to the Center for Disease Control to produce a study on the best means of reducing gun violence. The study was generally short on hard conclusions, but on the subject of mandatory minimums, it found the efforts of prosecutors and judges less effective at reducing gun violence than community programs and on-the-ground policing. “Most studies found that enhanced sentencing did not affect crime rates,” the report read.
The evidence that they directly reduce crime is thin, according to a review by Northwestern University School of Law. Even in the case of New York City, which had one of the country’s most dramatic reductions in gun crime, some experts question how much greater public safety can be clearly attributed to these laws. University of California at Berkeley professor Michael Zimring studied the city’s historic crime decline from the ’90s into the 2000s, and found that 90 percent of the reduction in murders happened before mandatory minimums for gun possession were tightened up in 2006.
In 2013, President Obama issued an executive order to the Center for Disease Control to produce a study on the best means of reducing gun violence. The study was generally short on hard conclusions, but on the subject of mandatory minimums, it found the efforts of prosecutors and judges less effective at reducing gun violence than community programs and on-the-ground policing. “Most studies found that enhanced sentencing did not affect crime rates,” the report read.
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RE: Article by Tigrrrrr illustrates my point about gun control - 90Tiger MU - 11/22 10:40:34
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