The technology is not even new, about time they replaced it with more sophisticated products, and then again its already behind the most recent technological breakthroughs.

Well its going to get worse, that's only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to technologies to maintain security, there are actually systems being developed that track your movement, facial expression, emotional state etc, and interprets this data on its own to file you as a suspected criminal or terrorist if you behave conspicuously.

Originally posted by Historical-Mozart
America has only 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's incarcerated population -- what does that tell you?

It tells me that it's a social issue, not a criminal one. You are right, we have too many laws on the books...because society demanded them. Not because our government is obsessed with imprisoning as many as possible.

Originally posted by Aggie Man

It tells me that it's a social issue, not a criminal one. You are right, we have too many laws on the books...because society demanded them.

Yes, society did demand them, but it also was that the government and the media egged the society on by focusing and sensationalizing the "criminal" issues of drug issues and so on to the point which society -- not knowing a damn thing about this complex issue -- went for the Occam's razor solution, the simplest one, and that was to make tougher laws.


Oregon and Montana had decriminalized possession of small amounts of pot in the '70s and both states later re-criminalized such possessions... why? It was because the revenues from arresting/incarcerating people had dropped to abysmal levels, so the states, in need of revenue, re-criminalized pot. Crazy.


I really don't have any faith left in society in general. They've been unbelievably dumbed-down.