At a 2023 press conference, the police chief of Washington, DC reported that “the average homicide suspect has been arrested 11 times prior to them committing a homicide.” Likewise, suspects arrested for murder during 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland were previously arrested an average of 8 times. Contrary to common claims that the U.S. criminal justice system imprisons too many people, roughly 15 aggravated assaults, robberies, sexual assaults, rapes, and murders are committed for every one person sentenced to prison. This fact is based on the latest available data, which is for 2006.