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Jaywalking is wrong. Should you get 15 months or even 20 years for it? I doubt that either the guy who made the call or the guy who hired him wanted to kill so

• saagarjha 7y ago
  > Jaywalking is wrong. There’s discussion about whether this was criminalized by the auto lobby, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > Should you get 15 months or even 20 years for it? In any case, it’s a minor crime and the punishment, if any, is usually quite light. > I doubt that either the guy who made the call or the guy who hired him wanted to kill someone. In any case, I think we can agree that the people who were involved in making the call knew they were doing something wrong. At the very least, they were wasting police time and harassing an innocent person, which is a medium-level crime even if nobody got hurt. In this case we have a tragedy: I think it’s reasonable that the caller knew that this was a possible outcome and the results would make the case one for “accomplice to murder” or something similar. If we accept that the caller did not have an intention or expect for armed police to show up and start shooting (which is somewhat unlikely considering what he called for) this could be a manslaughter charge. (FWIW, I am not providing an opinion on what the sentencing for something like this should be, or whether the police officer should be charged with murder, as those are separate issues.)