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This site claims $129 billion: https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/state-and-local-finance-initiative/state-and-local-backgrounders/cr
by diogenes4 3y ago
This site claims $129 billion: https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/state-and-local-finance-initiative/state-and-local-backgrounders/criminal-justice-police-corrections-courts-expenditures https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...
Sure, you can adjust per capita. I still think it's a fairly shocking statistic—we certainly don't get that value back except as a jobs program.
- otteromkram 3y agoI got ~$80 billion from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (page 14): https://bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh236/files/media/document/lpdp20.pdf https://bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh236/files/media/docu... One caveat: That spend metric has a standard error of ~$2.6 trillion. With a T. (See page 25 in same document for the error table.)