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By Patrick B. McGuigan | CapitolBeatOK 
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Texas Department of Public Safety announced an 8.3 percent reduction in violent crime rates in 2011, the same year when its incarceration rates fell 1.45 percent.
The new data feed additional the hopes of Oklahoma state officials that the Justice Reinvestment Initiative will yield similar results.
Marc Levin, senior policy adviser for Right on Crime, an Austin-based group, said Texas’ success in reducing incarceration lightened the financial burden for taxpayers by “using conservative principles such as limited government and accountability.”
Oklahoma’s initial steps toward judicial reform have attracted strong bipartisan majorities in the Legislature.
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