Shocking new report shows locking up criminals reduces crime. Film at 11.

What the hell? Let's do it right now. Everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott.

This is Right Angle, brought to you by the members of Bill Whittle.com.

So gentlemen, forgive the snarky intro because I don't want to make fun of this new City Journal article by a guy named Tal Fort Gang. I've never heard of him,

but it's a great article, and he collects just a lot of data in here, that our friends on the

left apparently need constant reminders of because it's just so obvious. So this is from the

article. It says, violent crime is overwhelmingly the work of a very small group of repeat offenders.

That it is highly concentrated.

And I got to tell you guys, I was shocked when I saw just how highly concentrated this was.

In New York City in 2022, just 3227 people accounted for a third of all shoplifting with get this more than 6,000 arrests between the 327 people.

In Oakland, 0.1% of the population, 400 people committed a majority of the city's homicides in recent years.

In 2014, data showed that three quarters of state prisoners, that's like your, you know,

your core prison population, had at least five prior arrests, nearly five percent had 31 arrests or

more, and that is a larger share than those imprisoned after just a single arrest.

And he concluded that the case for an incapacitation first approach to crime control

follows directly from this data.

Scott, you don't seem to be wearing your shocked face right now.

Why is that? It's because I used to live in a

little town that was kind of, had been a little boomtown and then it'd kind of fallen on hard times.

And I was warned that it wasn't probably a good idea. At this point, I was a pastor of a church and they said,

you know, it may not be a great idea for you to live downtown, especially if you're going to have

children and, you know, it's kind of a dangerous area to live in. We were not downtown for very

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