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Non-violent vs violent crime. There is a difference.
by macspoofing 6y ago
Non-violent vs violent crime. There is a difference.
- jxf 6y agoCourts have ruled that robbery is not necessarily violent. If you walk into a bank and say "Excuse me, could I trouble you for a moment of your time? Please hand me all the money in the safe", that's not violent: no threat is made, no gun is brandished, and so on. (It is still a robbery, of course.) https://blog.federaldefendersny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/15-1518_opn.pdf https://blog.federaldefendersny.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/...
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- macspoofing 6y agoAre you being facetious? Because that is the biggest load of crap I've heard. There is no such thing as a non-violent bank robbery. The only reason why a bank teller would acquiesce to the demand, as polite as it is, is because there is a threat of violence. If the teller was guaranteed that no violence would occur if they denied the request, they would tell the would-be-robber to take a hike.
- lostlogin 6y agoThere is, and if both took $10k the violent crime deserves a harsher punishment. But when 18,000x the money is taken, there is a fair bit of hurt for a fair few people.
- macspoofing 6y agoWe live in a dyslexic era. On one end, you have people trying to argue that there is an incarceration crisis in the country and call for reforms to reduce prison sentences for non-violent offenders ... on the other end, if you read a story about a white-collar criminal, people want to increase prison sentences. Which is it?
- lostlogin 6y agoI think it can be both without being contradictory. Changing what gets you prison time with a resulting overall decrease in the prison population is possible.
- HumblyTossed 6y agoIf I work for a bank IT department and I siphon off a bit of money from tens of thousands of accounts. How long will I get in prison?