An important Wall Street Journal commentary by former Attorney General Bill Barr cites three significant and startling statistics that every American concerned by rising crime needs to confront.
First, Americans must recognize that while the impact of criminal violence is widespread, its perpetrators represent a tiny fraction of our total populace. This “small, hard-core group of habitual offenders constitute roughly 1% of the overall population but commit between half and two-thirds of predatory, violent crime.”
Barr writes that “each of these offenders can be expected to commit scores, even hundreds of crimes a year … The only time they aren’t committing crimes is when they’re in prison.”
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