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Los Angeles has the largest jail system in the world and we are a Democratic society.

Los Angeles County Jails, with an average daily population nearing 22,000, is the biggest jail system in the world and one of the most troubled in the U.S. It includes Men's Central Jail, a windowless dungeon in downtown L.A. that has been plagued by a long-entrenched culture of savage deputy on-inmate violence.

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If arrested in Los Angeles County, there is about a 36% chance that you will end up in the jail system. In 2019, there were 303,363 arrests in Los Angeles County and 110,941 of those were booked into the county jail system. This was a slightly lower incarceration rate in county jails than in the two previous years (37% in both 2017 and 2018).

Snip... They spend a 1,000,000 dollars to incarcerate people from a select number of neighborhoods...


Million Dollar Hoods maps the neighborhoods where LASD and LAPD spent the most on incarceration between 2012 to 2017. The first layer of the map highlights in red all communities where the LASD spent at least $1 million annually to jail residents, amounting to a minimum $6 million investment in incarceration over the study’s six-year period. The second layer of the map highlights the communities where the LAPD spent at least $1 million annually on detention during these same years. The millions of dollars committed to incarceration in the highlighted neighborhoods makes them “Million Dollar Hoods.”

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Led by Prof. Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) research team maps and monitors how much local authorities spend on locking up residents in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Led by Black and Brown women and driven by formerly-incarcerated persons as well as residents of Million Dollar Hoods, the MDH team also provides the only full and public account of the leading causes of arrest in Los Angeles, revealing that drug possession and DUIs are the top booking charges in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Collectively, this data counters the popular misunderstanding that incarceration advances public safety by removing violent and serious offenders from the streets. In fact, local authorities are investing millions in locking up the County’s most economically vulnerable, geographically isolated, and racially marginalized populations for drug and alcohol-related crimes. This talk provides an introduction to the Million Dollar Hoods project, method, and impact.
 

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Here in Buffalo, N.Y. two neighborhoods...



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Figure 3. Two neighborhoods in northeastern Buffalo — Starin Central and Leroy — have two things in common: opposite sides of Amherst Street and a correlation between imprisonment and both poverty and unemployment rates.

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Appendices
This report just includes a sampling of the possible analyses that can be done with this data. So that other advocates and researchers can use the data in new ways, this report makes a count of the number of people in New York state prisons in April 2010 from each of the following geographies available:

Statewide:

New York City

Next five largest cities & Albany County:

 

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Here a link money spent on police in our nation... cities spend...


In inflation-adjusted dollars, state and local spending on police increased from $42 billion in 1977 to $115 billion in 2017.

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But that number undersells what Los Angeles spent on police because the community funds both city and county police. In 2017, Los Angeles city spent $2.2 billion on police and Los Angeles county spent $2.0 billion. Police spending as a share of the county’s budget was 9 percent, lower than the city’s share simply because the county’s budget is larger (including large shares for Medicaid and hospitals).

Los Angeles city did not spend and Los Angeles county spent relatively little on public education, though. Instead, most of that spending came from independent school districts. If you include that and the spending of all other local governments (including special districts), the police share is lower. Across California, police spending was 6 percent of all local government spending in 2017 (roughly the national average).

This illustrates how a key challenge in translating police spending data is merely our system of governance. In short, different governments deliver different services—and it varies by state.

Las Vegas spent less than 2 percent of its budget on the police in 2017, but Clark County spent 15 percent. In contrast, police spending was roughly 2 percent of the Cook County, Illinois, budget in 2017 but nearly 20 percent of the Chicago city budget.

New York City spent $5.7 billion on police in 2017. But that was just 6 percent of its budget because New York City public school spending was included in the city budget—and accounted for a third of the city’s spending.

The average spending on police for jurisdictions with more than one million people was 9.7 percent in 2017. The average for jurisdictions with fewer than 50,000 people was 16.7 percent. Again, this variation is driven in large part by what particular services jurisdictions deliver (and do not deliver).

If you’re looking to compare police spending to all other public services, using combined state and local spending is helpful because it groups all of these local governments together. The number is not better than looking at just localities or just municipalities. But it provides a full accounting of what state and local governments provide in the US.

Overall, police spending was 4 percent of state and local direct general expenditures in 2017. (This data included federal transfers; if we look at just own-source funds, police spending was 5 percent of state and local expenditures.)

This is far less than what state and local governments spent on public welfare (mostly Medicaid in the Census accounting) and K–12 education, but more than many other services, including housing and community development (and others not listed on the chart). And although police spending is far less than the sum of public welfare programs, it is more than spending on cash welfare programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

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Los Angeles has the largest jail system in the world and we are a Democratic society.

Los Angeles County Jails, with an average daily population nearing 22,000, is the biggest jail system in the world and one of the most troubled in the U.S. It includes Men's Central Jail, a windowless dungeon in downtown L.A. that has been plagued by a long-entrenched culture of savage deputy on-inmate violence.

Snip... the jail system by the numbers...


If arrested in Los Angeles County, there is about a 36% chance that you will end up in the jail system. In 2019, there were 303,363 arrests in Los Angeles County and 110,941 of those were booked into the county jail system. This was a slightly lower incarceration rate in county jails than in the two previous years (37% in both 2017 and 2018).

Snip... They spend a 1,000,000 dollars to incarcerate people from a select number of neighborhoods...


Million Dollar Hoods maps the neighborhoods where LASD and LAPD spent the most on incarceration between 2012 to 2017. The first layer of the map highlights in red all communities where the LASD spent at least $1 million annually to jail residents, amounting to a minimum $6 million investment in incarceration over the study’s six-year period. The second layer of the map highlights the communities where the LAPD spent at least $1 million annually on detention during these same years. The millions of dollars committed to incarceration in the highlighted neighborhoods makes them “Million Dollar Hoods.”

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Led by Prof. Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) research team maps and monitors how much local authorities spend on locking up residents in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Led by Black and Brown women and driven by formerly-incarcerated persons as well as residents of Million Dollar Hoods, the MDH team also provides the only full and public account of the leading causes of arrest in Los Angeles, revealing that drug possession and DUIs are the top booking charges in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Collectively, this data counters the popular misunderstanding that incarceration advances public safety by removing violent and serious offenders from the streets. In fact, local authorities are investing millions in locking up the County’s most economically vulnerable, geographically isolated, and racially marginalized populations for drug and alcohol-related crimes. This talk provides an introduction to the Million Dollar Hoods project, method, and impact.
Los Angeles County is the largest county in Los Angeles so yes it will by definition have the largest county jail in the US. Los Angeles County has over ten million people most US states don't even have that many people. No one goes to jail for misdemeanors or drug possession. No one even goes to jail for non violent felonies anymore. We just elected a DA who doesn't want to prsocute anyone but cops.
So Los Angeles County is a criminals paradise. Not sure what what your point is that the LA Jail System is somehow bad.
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Los Angeles has the largest jail system in the world and we are a Democratic society.

Los Angeles County Jails, with an average daily population nearing 22,000, is the biggest jail system in the world and one of the most troubled in the U.S. It includes Men's Central Jail, a windowless dungeon in downtown L.A. that has been plagued by a long-entrenched culture of savage deputy on-inmate violence.

Snip... the jail system by the numbers...


If arrested in Los Angeles County, there is about a 36% chance that you will end up in the jail system. In 2019, there were 303,363 arrests in Los Angeles County and 110,941 of those were booked into the county jail system. This was a slightly lower incarceration rate in county jails than in the two previous years (37% in both 2017 and 2018).

Snip... They spend a 1,000,000 dollars to incarcerate people from a select number of neighborhoods...


Million Dollar Hoods maps the neighborhoods where LASD and LAPD spent the most on incarceration between 2012 to 2017. The first layer of the map highlights in red all communities where the LASD spent at least $1 million annually to jail residents, amounting to a minimum $6 million investment in incarceration over the study’s six-year period. The second layer of the map highlights the communities where the LAPD spent at least $1 million annually on detention during these same years. The millions of dollars committed to incarceration in the highlighted neighborhoods makes them “Million Dollar Hoods.”

Snip... drivers...


Led by Prof. Kelly Lytle Hernandez, the Million Dollar Hoods (MDH) research team maps and monitors how much local authorities spend on locking up residents in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Led by Black and Brown women and driven by formerly-incarcerated persons as well as residents of Million Dollar Hoods, the MDH team also provides the only full and public account of the leading causes of arrest in Los Angeles, revealing that drug possession and DUIs are the top booking charges in L.A.’s Million Dollar Hoods. Collectively, this data counters the popular misunderstanding that incarceration advances public safety by removing violent and serious offenders from the streets. In fact, local authorities are investing millions in locking up the County’s most economically vulnerable, geographically isolated, and racially marginalized populations for drug and alcohol-related crimes. This talk provides an introduction to the Million Dollar Hoods project, method, and impact.
Your article is full of crap. The City of Los Angeles never had a jail system. No city in California has a jail system. Areestes are booked at a police station and maybe temporarily placed in a larger facility downtown but if they can make Own Recognizance or bail they are transferred to the LA Sherrifs Department. Of course now they just get OR in most cases.
Releasing criminals just means more crime. Crime has gone up and more people have died especially people of color after these stupid BLM riots.
For decades California just had basic catch and release and crime went up. Then we had three strikes and crime went down. No it's ok to top beat and steal.
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Your article is full of crap. The City of Los Angeles never had a jail system. No city in California has a jail system. Areestes are booked at a police station and maybe temporarily placed in a larger facility downtown but if they can make Own Recognizance or bail they are transferred to the LA Sherrifs Department. Of course now they just get OR in most cases.
Actually about the county system... and spending a lot of money to police a handful of neighborhoods... arresting people for minor offences...
 

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Actually about the county system... and spending a lot of money to police a handful of neighborhoods... arresting people for minor offences...
Which cuts down on crime. Now people can do what they want and people are fleeing Los Angeles. Nothing wrong with holding people accountable. I do rail transit security and it's simply not safe for people to use the metro because the scumbags are tolerated.
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A penal system out of control...


Britain’s judicial system is obsessed with prison to a degree that is unlike any other country in western Europe. The number of prisoners has roughly doubled since the 1990s. Prison conditions are so bad that a Dutch court refused to extradite a convict to Britain on grounds of its “inhumane” jails.

Always in the background has been the threat of prison. Records show jailings for, among other things, stealing two penguins from a zoo, disrupting the Boat Race, overloading a light aircraft, plundering a war wreck, and driving the wrong way down an M6 slip road. An expert in European law tells me none of this would have led to prison on the continent. It is now an imprisonable offence to illegally fell a tree, use a phone when driving or photograph a woman breastfeeding without her permission. These actions may be deplorable; but no conceivable good can be served by spending tens of thousands of pounds a year locking up the offenders.

Over half of British prisoners on short sentences now reoffend soon after release; in Norway’s modernised penal regime, the figure is about 20%. One reason is that, for many people, any prison sentence renders them unemployable. It is effectively for life. Jails should be for rehabilitation or public protection. They are no deterrent or they would not be full
 

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The article misses the point the Brits are becoming us(America) for we throw everyone in jail too, darker the complexion greater the chance...

It is a sign that Britain is a failing society by these quotes...

The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members.”

The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its weakest member,”
 

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I found the article about prisons in America and it has lots of charts about who and where and why America imprisons so many people... and the 9 myths of mass incarceration... it's a good read... there are charts...


Further complicating matters is the fact that the U.S. doesn’t have one “criminal justice system;” instead, we have thousands of federal, state, local, and tribal systems. Together, these systems hold almost 2 million people in 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails, 1,323 juvenile correctional facilities, 181 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories.
 
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