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So you heard and saw an obvious desire by this audience, this community, to help you on your way and to do something on this issue.
你應該聽到看到這些聽眾，這個群體，想幫你、想做貢獻的意愿了。
Other than writing a check, what could we do?
除了給你寫支票，我們還能做什么？
Well there are opportunities all around us. If you live in the state of California, for example, there's a referendum coming up this spring
我們周遭有很多機會。比如，如果你在加州住，今年春天有個公投，
where actually there's going to be an effort to redirect some of the money we spend on the politics of punishment.
決定是否要重新分配一些我們原本花費在刑罰操作的經費。
For example, here in California we're going to spend one billion dollars on the death penalty in the next five years -- one billion dollars.
例如，在加州，未來五年內，我們將花十億美元在死刑上十億美元。
And yet, 46 percent of all homicide cases don't result in arrest.
然而，百分之四十六的殺人案件并沒有逮捕到犯人。
56 percent of all rape cases don't result. So there's an opportunity to change that.
百分之五十六的強暴案沒有破案。所以是有機會可以改變的。
And this referendum would propose having those dollars go to law enforcement and safety.
這個公投提議將這些金錢投入落實法律和安全。
And I think that opportunity exists all around us.
我想機會就存在于我們身邊。
There's been this huge decline in crime in America over the last three decades.
在過去的三十年來，美國的犯罪率有顯著的下降。
And part of the narrative of that is sometimes that it's about increased incarceration rates.
有部分的看法是這跟提高的監禁率有關。
What would you say to someone who believed that?
你會怎么跟持有這種看法的人解釋？
Well actually the violent crime rate has remained relatively stable.
事實上，美國暴力犯罪的數字一直沒有多大變動。
The great increase in mass incarceration in this country wasn't really in violent crime categories.
大量增加的服刑人口，并不是來自暴力犯罪。
It was this misguided war on drugs. That's where the dramatic increases have come in our prison population.
而主要是毒品犯罪。那是我們的監獄人口劇增的原因。
And we got carried away with the rhetoric of punishment.
我們被花俏的判刑名詞沖昏了頭。
And so we have three strikes laws that put people in prison forever for stealing a bicycle, for low-level property crimes,
例如我們用三振出局法嚴懲慣犯，將偷腳踏車或廉價物品的罪犯判終身監禁，
rather than making them give those resources back to the people who they victimized.
而不是讓他們去彌補受害者。
I believe we need to do more to help people who are victimized by crime, not do less.
我相信我們需要做的是給予犯罪受害人更多幫助，不是只著重在嚴懲罪犯。
And I think our current punishment philosophy does nothing for no one.
我們現有的刑罰思考哲學對任何人都沒有好處。
And I think that's the orientation that we have to change.
所以我認為這個大方向需要改變。
Bryan, you've struck a massive chord here. You're an inspiring person.
Bryan，你的演說動人心弦。你是個能激發人心的人。
Thank you so much for coming to TED. Thank you.
非常感謝你來到TED。謝謝。
