Byron Dorgan: “Now, the issue of crime. People want good jobs in our country. They also want to feel safe, and ours is a country with a…”

“Now, the issue of crime. People want good jobs in our country. They also want to feel safe, and ours is a country with a serious crime challenge. I have a crime clock which shows the problem we have. One murder every 23 minutes; one forcible rape every 5 minutes; one robbery every 51 seconds; one aggravated assault every 28 seconds. We have 23,000 murders in America every year, and 110,000 rapes. This is a country with a serious crime problem. I have said on the floor many times, and I want to repeat it, that it does not take Dick Tracy to understand who is going to commit the next violent crime. It is someone who committed a previous violent crime, and, in most cases, someone who has been in prison and who has been released early. Earlier this week, I mentioned two recent cases, both of them in the Washington, DC, area. But I could stand up here and tell 3,400 similar stories, because 3,400 people have been murdered by people who should have been in prison and unable to murder anybody, but they were let out early.”