Somewhere i read, maybe a year ago or so, a piece decrying the recent rise in costs of capital crimes legal proceedings from around two millions to near three millions usd ... probably i found that piece on this page - story.news.yahoo.com
Plus, as you point out, you still have to warehouse them for ten or twelve years ... which may have been included in that cost structure, don't know .... but even say seven years - let's say the average perp is thirty years of age, and will die naturally at seventy-two, that forty-two years is only six times the length of the seven-year appeal process .... take the DPV [discounted present value] of say two thirds of that three millions, invest it in say, oh not Enron stock how about gold bullion, and the proceeds will pay off a lot of secure warehousing
Bonus - your society comes across as far less barbaric, and you can start pointing self-righteous fingers at the chinese for their extremely cost-effective methods of just shooting the buggers and selling their body parts
In the cutting of costs you don't want to cut quality .... while not connected in lockstep, these two can be related ... better and cheaper, is what to shoot for .... lots could be saved as well, by stopping the medieval practise of persecuting pot smokers ... listen to your libertarians on this - what the hell business of the state is it if i want to grow some pot out back and roll it up .... not that i personally want to, got bored almost thirty years ago with the stuff, haven't had two dozen tokes since ... but there should be principle behind the law |
