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My personal twist on this one is to make showing a habitual failure to enforce a law be an affirmative defense for all crimes. That way, the law is by definiti
by kd5bjo 7y ago
My personal twist on this one is to make showing a habitual failure to enforce a law be an affirmative defense for all crimes. That way, the law is by definition what is enforced, and singling someone out for infractions that are generally overlooked becomes a much more risky tool for the police to use.
- microcolonel 7y ago> My personal twist on this one is to make showing a habitual failure to enforce a law be an affirmative defense for all crimes Murder would be legal in Detroit, or at least, it would have been for more than one year.
- sergioj97 7y agoIt doesn't seem reasonable to me to evaluate if a law is necessary by checking how enforceable it is. Even if a crime is hard to fight, I think that's a problem but not an excuse. And if the problem is the police singling out some people like you said, then in my opinion there are other, more straight forward ways to tackle it. There are too many cases where a crime should be prosecuted even if it's difficult to do so. (As an example, I consider rape a difficult crime to deal with, but I wouldn't understand not prosecuting it because of that)