How To Cut Your Country's Crime Rate By 97%
In 2015, El Salvador had the highest homicide rate in the world: 103 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Last year, its rate dropped to 7.8. This year, it's on pace to hit 2.6.
Bukele's one weird trick to cut his country's homicide rate by 97% was to round up his criminal class, and put them in giant jails. He shared a video of his country's prison guards packing them in.
Who would have ever thought cracking down on crime and corruption actually WORKS!?
"Hoy en la madrugada, en un solo operativo, trasladamos a los primeros 2,000 pandilleros al Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT).
Esta será su nueva casa, donde vivirán por décadas, mezclados, sin poder hacerle más daño a la población." said Nayib Bukele.
Here's the English translation: Today at dawn, in a single operation, we transferred the first 2,000 gang members to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT). This will be their new house, where they will live for decades, mixed up, unable to do any more harm to the population. We continue…
Let's hope our leaders can learn something from El Salvador's example. High hopes, right?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-02-26/how-cut-your-countrys-crime-rate-97
