Why Catching Criminals Matters More Than Punishing Them(bloomberg.com)
bloomberg.com
Why Catching Criminals Matters More Than Punishing Them
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/what-crime-research-says-about-the-effectiveness-of-the-police-and-prison
From 6600 homicides in 2015 (108 --one hundred and height-- per 100 000 citizens) to 82 homicides in 2025 (1.28 -- one POINT 28 per 100 000 citizens).
That's a 98.8% reduction in homicides in 11 years. By going hard on criminals:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador
These are actual numbers.
A 98.8% reduction in homicide rates (98.8 for the population was slightly lower in 2015 than in 2025: the 98.8% figure is correct) is not something that can be dismissed.
But in the west the left thinks we should be all nice and gentle with criminals. The problem is that being all nice and gentle with criminals is being evil to all the woman raped and the family of those killed.
A recent example is that young ukrainian refugee woman who fled war in Ukraine only to be killed in the US by a repeated offender on which lefist judges had been repeatedly extremely soft.
I'm sorry but I vote for the Nayib Bukele's El Salvador solution and not for Bloomberg/book authors/west uni teachers' "let's soft on crime" / "we must go past blame" (SBF's mom) etc.
Criminals should be taken by the scruff of the neck and the state should show them who's got the monopoly on violence.