3 ms·

How about $10-13k in fees / mandatory education classes for a DUI in California? That is pretty punitive AND crippling. The classes are given by for profit com

• crankylinuxuser 7y ago
  > How about $10-13k in fees / mandatory education classes for a DUI in California? That is pretty punitive AND crippling. Slate Star Codex talks about that in their Moloch article. Long story short, no politician can be for the reduction of these sorts of things. The first one that tries will be lambasted in public when someone who did less fees or less 'for-profit training' has another bender and kills little Timmy. Sentencing will always go up, unless acted upon by actors who aren't subject to voting forces. So will fees and fines and plenty of other torturous actions.
• iso1631 7y ago
  If those fees were linked to wealth or income that would seem reasonable. $10k is going to really cause problems for an average person, for a holywood superstar though it should be more like $1m A firefighter who's DUI because they had a couple of beers on a Friday night, then got called to hospital 50 miles away because their daughter had just been stabbed, and instinctively jumped in his car to get there asap, shouldn't be treated in the same way as a $900k/year architect who's been guzzling champagne at a product launch after launch party, then drives their $400k car 3 miles home