Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151020:21:36:00
You go back to the era when the laws were put on the books in the first place, you look at where violent crime was then, where it is now, there's been a massive reduction, don't some of these things deserve credit for that? >> absolutely not. and there's a lot of detailed studies that have shown that the drops in crime which we're seeing, not only in the united states, but across globally, in other industrialized countries, that doesn't incarcerate such high levels of their population. america is unique. we're seeing the same drops in crimes as a lot of other countries, but we're also incarcer...