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No thank you. Any society that has automated systems putting people's names on the cops "find and bother" this over petty civil infractions is not a society I

No thank you. Any society that has automated systems putting people's names on the cops "find and bother" this over petty civil infractions is not a society I want to live in. Bright headlights are a problem that's so far below all sorts of misdemeanors with victims that routinely go un-investigated that I don't understand how someone can suggest with a straight face that they deserve that level of law enforcement resources. If you don't want to see a particular product exist then go after the sources. Edit: I guess you probably meant "manually report" rather than "build a system that automatically reports" which is far more reasonable. For anyone who thinks we should be automating this sort of thing the above response stands though.

lotsofpulp 7y ago
Blinding other drivers creating a hazardous situation is petty?
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  It's a lot pettier than the rampant petty theft that gets ignored in many major urban areas.
  - lotsofpulp 7y ago
    That’s irrelevant to this discussion.
    - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
      Data points illustrating how society handles actual criminal infractions with victims are very much relevant in the context of a suggestion that we pull out all the stops to prosecute any particular civil infraction that has no immediate victims.
      - tom_ 7y ago
        The suggestion is that you report it, as a safety issue, not that you then go on to demand justice for this not-exactly-heinous non-crime. The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on. ("Oh god. This guy sounds just like... oh. It is dsfyu404ed." - me, often enough to have noticed this is a thing, reading the comments here on articles about cars.)
        dsfyu404ed 7y ago
        >The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on. Right, that's exactly the response we don't even give to all sorts of crime with a victim unless the victim is very pushy about getting a police report filed. If we're not going to at least make some token effort to enforce petty theft and vandalism laws then I see no value to society of making a point of giving that level of enforcement to even lesser crimes.
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  - brazzy 7y ago
    Petty theft does not put lives at risk. I cannot imagine how anyone with minimal understanding how the world workd could suggest that is a "petty" concern.

lotsofpulp 7y ago

Blinding other drivers creating a hazardous situation is petty?

dsfyu404ed 7y ago
It's a lot pettier than the rampant petty theft that gets ignored in many major urban areas.
- lotsofpulp 7y ago
  That’s irrelevant to this discussion.
  - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
    Data points illustrating how society handles actual criminal infractions with victims are very much relevant in the context of a suggestion that we pull out all the stops to prosecute any particular civil infraction that has no immediate victims.
    - tom_ 7y ago
      The suggestion is that you report it, as a safety issue, not that you then go on to demand justice for this not-exactly-heinous non-crime. The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on. ("Oh god. This guy sounds just like... oh. It is dsfyu404ed." - me, often enough to have noticed this is a thing, reading the comments here on articles about cars.)
      - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
        >The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on. Right, that's exactly the response we don't even give to all sorts of crime with a victim unless the victim is very pushy about getting a police report filed. If we're not going to at least make some token effort to enforce petty theft and vandalism laws then I see no value to society of making a point of giving that level of enforcement to even lesser crimes.
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- brazzy 7y ago
  Petty theft does not put lives at risk. I cannot imagine how anyone with minimal understanding how the world workd could suggest that is a "petty" concern.