The Five Most Ruthless Police States in America

The Five Most Ruthless Police States in America

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This past decade has seen such a large increase in the U.S. prison and jail population that there can be no historical comparison, reports the National Institute of Corrections. If the number of those incarcerated were added to the unemployment rate, the rate would be 2% greater. In the year 2000, 2 million (or 25%) of the world's 8 million prisoners were housed in the U.S. (which only has 5% of the world's population). That figure grew to nearly 2.3 million in 2010....

Louisiana - Where Everyone Has a 2% Chance of Landing Behind Bars

1 in 55 Residents Incarcerated

While the crime rate in Louisiana is about 18% higher than the national average, its incarceration rate is a disproportionate 48% higher than than the national average, according to the NationalInstituteofCorrections. Louisiana incarcerates about 881 people per 100,000. That means one out of every 55 Louisiana residents is behind bars, the highest incarceration rate of any state, according to research released in 2009 by the PewCenterfortheStates, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit group.

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Mississippi - A Safe Place to Live, A Bad Place to Get Arrested

1 in 69 Residents Incarcerated

The crime rate in Mississippi is about 12% lower than the national average. Yet, Mississippi’s incarceration rate is a whopping 38% higher than than the national average, a rate of 702 per 100,000 according to the National Institute of Corrections.

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The prison industry is another example of the rampant corruption in American government. Police are the most organized and well armed street gangs in the country. They have an "us against them" attitude and videos are everywhere showing them literally getting away with murder.

It appears to be getting harder to deny that America is a Fascist state held together by massive fear-inducing propaganda. Our TVs are filed with police propaganda shows, displaying military tactics against civilians.

This article points out the states where you need to be on your best behavior.

Included is just one example from my local paper of what happens to you if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time in Portland, and we're not in the top 5:


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reply to post by Yankee451


Yankee451,

So true!

We have laws on the books that make it illegal to video cops in action.

We have the privatization of the prison system. (Yeah, let's make incarceration a money-making proposition. No need to worry about any corruption, as long as you ignore what happened in Pennsylvania.)

We have the continuation of the War on Drugs, a complete failure and horrid waste of our tax dollars.

Mostly, how often the police are caught red-handed and yet nothing ever seems to come of it. I'm lucky to live in an area where the cops are pretty cool, even downright friendly, but that's not the point. There is abuse and it seems to be ramping up at a very scary rate.

Star & Flag.

reply to post by Yankee451


This is what happens when you have a government for and by the people. As it turns out the people are just as happy to oppress themselves as a dictator is.

But hey, people need to be punished right?

I could go on for hours on this subject it pisses me off so much.

reply to post by Hessling


John Harris has a great perspective on the difference between a police officer and a peace officer...if you haven't sat through his "Its an Illusion" lecture, it's worth doing.

www.youtube.com...

Many people don't realize this but the US has more people incarcerated than any other nation (even most countries combined). We have more people behind bars than the USSR at the height of their reign or even Nazi Germany. Sadly, most of these people are incarcerated for what basically amounts to political crimes, "crimes" that do not produce a victim.



--airspoon

Originally posted by Jinglelord
reply to post by Yankee451

 

This is what happens when you have a government for and by the people. As it turns out the people are just as happy to oppress themselves as a dictator is.

But hey, people need to be punished right?

I could go on for hours on this subject it pisses me off so much.

Yeah, I've got a soap box set aside for this subject too. Few people are as indoctrinated as cops...they're the ones we need to reach.

What a surprise...they are all in the southern United States...a large amount of lawmen down there want to be Wyatt Earp. (and probably a lot less female officer, who are said to be the better gender for police work). I was born and raised in Texas, and have had first hand experience with over zealous law enforcement.

Thankfully I have relocated to a saner part of the country, albeit, still in The U.S. and I do believe that all states will have this trend in an upward spiral as the NWO prepares to "reign us all in"

S&F for a though provoking thread

reply to post by airspoon


The number one contributing factor to our insane incarceration rate is the War on Drugs.

It's a boondoggle, plain and simple.

The penal system in the USA has been turned into a gigantic money-making machine. Same as health care.

Reminds me of what one friend told me about our system in the US...

"It's not a 'justice' system in our country, it's a 'legal' system. When you think about it you'll see there is a huge difference."

Peace.

Anyone who has ever been to Louisiana would tell you it is absolutely hilarious to consider it a "ruthless police state". There are more parties in LA than anywhere else in the nation. Citizens of Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas frequently come to LA for festivals, food, parties, and booze. Perhaps we could liberalize how drug charges are handled (New Orleans just made it OK for cops to hand marijauna users a ticket for a fine instead of arrest), but ...please. There's no other people, except maybe Montanans and new Hampshirites, who prize their freedom more and would like to resist authorities (perhaps why so many end up in trouble in the first place). As citizens of the most unique of the fifty states, Louisianians remain patriotic while at the same time look bemusedly at the strange, puritanical practices of the rest of the nation. If anything, we have a lot of poverty, which tends to go hand in hand with crime statistics. Oh well, Louisiana has lots of problems but, to quote New Orleans historian Lafcadio Hearn, "it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio."

Originally posted by neOrevolutionist


What a surprise...they are all in the southern United States...a large amount of lawmen down there want to be Wyatt Earp. (and probably a lot less female officer, who are said to be the better gender for police work). I was born and raised in Texas, and have had first hand experience with over zealous law enforcement.

Thankfully I have relocated to a saner part of the country, albeit, still in The U.S. and I do believe that all states will have this trend in an upward spiral as the NWO prepares to "reign us all in"

S&F for a though provoking thread

It's sad but true. I think institutionalized indoctrination and deliberate lack of education plays a big part, not to mention making an "industry" out of incarceration. What do capitalists do better than marketing? If there's so much money to be made on imprisoning folks, we'd better be sure to have plenty of laws to be broken, right?

reply to post by Yankee451


The really sad part is that incarcerating people does nothing but every where you turn you hear people crying that someone should be locked up. This really isn't the Government acting on it's own volition. This is the American people crying that people need to be locked up for moral issues they disagree with.

You will locked up for activities that in the opinion of the American public cause real crimes such as theft and murder. As examplesrug use and prostitution. The main argument for locking people up for these activities is that they can cause real crime. So essentially we have functioning thought police...

Fantastic.

But generally I'm the one considered insane when I present a logical argument.

Originally posted by Hessling
reply to post by airspoon

 

The number one contributing factor to our insane incarceration rate is the War on Drugs.

It's a boondoggle, plain and simple.

The penal system in the USA has been turned into a gigantic money-making machine. Same as health care.

Reminds me of what one friend told me about our system in the US...

"It's not a 'justice' system in our country, it's a 'legal' system. When you think about it you'll see there is a huge difference."

Peace.

Words have power...its interesting that the Government's term for the justice system is the "Criminal Justice System".

Interesting term for a system where you're innocent until proven guilty. Why isn't it the "Innocent Justice System"?

The war on drugs was a great tool for the capitalists to fill their prisons and at the same time, keep out the competition.

Does anyone remember Eugen Hasenfus?

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The United States is still suffering from the effects of its Civil War .....and the Pig Law....

On the local level, most southern towns and municipalities passed strict vagrancy laws to control the influx of black migrants and homeless people who poured into these urban communities in the years after the Civil War. In Mississippi, for example, whites passed the notorious "Pig Law" of 1876, designed to control vagrant blacks at loose in the community. This law made stealing a pig an act of grand larceny subject to punishment of up to five years in prison. Within two years, the number of convicts in the state penitentiary increased from under three hundred people to over one thousand. It was this law in Mississippi that turned the convict lease system into a profitable business, whereby convicts were leased to contractors who sub-leased them to planters, railroads, levee contractors, and timber jobbers. Almost all of the convicts in this situation were blacks, including women, and the conditions in the camps were horrible in the extreme.

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Originally posted by desert
The United States is still suffering from the effects of its Civil War .....and the Pig Law....

On the local level, most southern towns and municipalities passed strict vagrancy laws to control the influx of black migrants and homeless people who poured into these urban communities in the years after the Civil War. In Mississippi, for example, whites passed the notorious "Pig Law" of 1876, designed to control vagrant blacks at loose in the community. This law made stealing a pig an act of grand larceny subject to punishment of up to five years in prison. Within two years, the number of convicts in the state penitentiary increased from under three hundred people to over one thousand. It was this law in Mississippi that turned the convict lease system into a profitable business, whereby convicts were leased to contractors who sub-leased them to planters, railroads, levee contractors, and timber jobbers. Almost all of the convicts in this situation were blacks, including women, and the conditions in the camps were horrible in the extreme.

source

Indeed.

For a country borne of war, genocide and slavery to have convinced the world it is the shining beacon of freedom is a testament to the work of folks like Edward Bernays. Propaganda rules...

en.wikipedia.org...

Let's not forget the peoples self imposed [Often By Vote] Three strikes law

The Three Strikes law significantly increases the prison sentences of persons convicted of felonies who have been previously convicted of a violent crime or serious felony, and limits the ability of these offenders to receive a punishment other than a prison sentence. Violent and serious felonies are specifically listed in state laws. Violent offenses include murder, robbery of a residence in which a deadly or dangerous weapon is used, rape and other sex offenses; serious offenses include the same offenses defined as violent offenses, but also include other crimes such as burglary of a residence and assault with intent to commit a robbery or murder.

reply to post by Yankee451


All going according to plan. Here's your police state, FEMA camps included:

Originally posted by Yankee451
Does anyone remember Eugen Hasenfus?

Yes. He was the arms/drug running pilot downed in Nicaragua with then VP George HW Bush's phone number on his contact list. Why were you asking? ...desert is drooling with curiosity

reply to post by airspoon


You have some stats on that? I havn't been able to find anything that shows most of our prisoners are victimless criminals. I have seen stats before that show just over 50% are from violent crimes though. Keep in mind not all drug offenses are victimless.

reply to post by desert


Lol...

Just a name that was engraved on my memory. He was part of the war on drugs, delivering illegal arms to the contras on one trip, and delivering coc aine to the states on the return trip.

He's an example of how the war on drugs helps keep out the competition for the government's drug running. Heck, look at the bumper crops of Europe's opium being guarded by the US Army.

Thanks to the war on drugs, the war on terror and the war on poverty, I feel a whole lot safer.