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I'm sorry but this is complete nonsense. I haven't committed any misdemeanors in the past year. What misdemeanors did you commit yesterday? Maybe you're a on

I'm sorry but this is complete nonsense. I haven't committed any misdemeanors in the past year. What misdemeanors did you commit yesterday? Maybe you're a one man crime spree, most people are not.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago
Pretty much every non-criminal civil infraction has a misdemeanor counterpart that the cops can use at their discretion. Driving traffic speed on a highway is usually a misdemeanor unless you live somewhere with reality-based speed limits.
- SamReidHughes 6y ago
  It's telling the example you give is not actually a misdemeanor. Speeding is not the same thing as reckless driving. Try giving an actual misdemeanor as an example.
  - throwaway0a5e 6y ago
    Speeding 15-20 over (the last time traffic where I live didn't do that was the last rush hour before the lockdown) is a civil violation or misdemeanor at the discretion of the officer. In my jurisdiction smoking within a certain distance of certain government facilities (including the nondescript leased office that the registrar of deeds for my county is in, if the sign is to be beloved) is a misdemeanor (punishable by like a $50 fine or up to one night in jail IIRC). I know for a fact that not getting certain kinds of municipal permits can be prosecuted as a misdemeanor around here and pretty much nobody gets permits for anything if the property is their primary residence (and the inspectors don't care).
  - NikolaNovak 6y ago
    https://www.atlantaduilawyer.com/blog/is-a-speeding-ticket-a-misdemeanor-in-georgia/ https://www.atlantaduilawyer.com/blog/is-a-speeding-ticket-a... Presumably we all have access to Google :)
    - cgriswald 6y ago
      From your source: > Unlike most states, Georgia has a very unique traffic code. Almost all traffic violations in Georgia are misdemeanors. Emphasis added.
  - nitrogen 6y ago
    There are states where all traffic violations are classified as misdemeanors.
NikolaNovak 6y ago
There are so very very few people who can legitimately say they haven't committed a speeding offense in the last 12 months. Moreover - it's been demonstrated repeatedly that no single person can possibly make a claim that they have not run afoul of SOME municipal, state or federal law, regulation, code, rule, etc in any given time period. I'm known to my family as boring tame law & rule obeying buzz-kill, and I do not have anything remotely approaching the level of confidence and/or arrogance to make such a claim.
- mehrdadn 6y ago
  Someone also pointed this out in another thread, but generally speeding isn't a misdemeanor; it's an infraction.
ska 6y ago
This all depends on jurisdiction, of course, but there are tons of examples. Unless you are a very unusual person, you definitely have committed some recently. Did you ever roll through a stop sign without a complete stop or make a quick highway lane change without signaling? Reckless driving, up to officer discretion. Drove over the speed limit? Same goes many places. Ever forget your wallet and drive without your license? Drive with slightly over a legal limit of alcohol (hard to judge correctly)? Cross over a signed private property you don't have permission to access? Maybe you smoke and you are too close to a federal or state building access. Maybe your uncle gave you some hooch he made. Maybe you went to an unofficial nude beach. Been "drunk/disorderly in public" ? Again officer discretion but could easily be applied to majority of people leaving a club most Friday nights. Maybe you just live in a place where jaywalking is a misdemeanor. Honestly the lists are long and convoluted, and in many cases the discretion left to LEO mean that nearly anyone could be written up for it. Which is sort of the point.
- cgriswald 6y ago
  Nearly everything you’ve mentioned is an infraction (or even a “fixit”), not a misdemeanor, in every or nearly ever jurisdiction in the US. Whether to charge you with reckless is up to the cop, but without evidence—especially since cop cars have dash cams—it’s not likely to stick; especially for a first offense. (And OP asked what misdemeanor he committed anyway). And it’s very very easy to not drive above the legal limit for alcohol or to not drive recklessly. I’m not disagreeing with your overall point (although usually it’s expressed as people committing felonies every day) but these examples just aren’t making your point. Interestingly, violating the public health orders here has been a misdemeanor, and it’s pretty easy to have accidentally violated one for a moment.
  - ska 6y ago
    I think more of them are at discression than you suggest. Speeding being one of them places I've lived. Regardless, the point stands I think. The point isn't that cops are handing out misdemeanors left and right, rather that it is fairly easy to dig around and find one that could be applied to nearly everyone.
triceratops 6y ago
> I haven't committed any misdemeanors in the past year. That you know of, or have been cited for.

I'm sorry but this is complete nonsense. I haven't committed any misdemeanors in the past year. What misdemeanors did you commit yesterday? Maybe you're a one man crime spree, most people are not.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago

Pretty much every non-criminal civil infraction has a misdemeanor counterpart that the cops can use at their discretion. Driving traffic speed on a highway is usually a misdemeanor unless you live somewhere with reality-based speed limits.

SamReidHughes 6y ago
It's telling the example you give is not actually a misdemeanor. Speeding is not the same thing as reckless driving. Try giving an actual misdemeanor as an example.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  Speeding 15-20 over (the last time traffic where I live didn't do that was the last rush hour before the lockdown) is a civil violation or misdemeanor at the discretion of the officer. In my jurisdiction smoking within a certain distance of certain government facilities (including the nondescript leased office that the registrar of deeds for my county is in, if the sign is to be beloved) is a misdemeanor (punishable by like a $50 fine or up to one night in jail IIRC). I know for a fact that not getting certain kinds of municipal permits can be prosecuted as a misdemeanor around here and pretty much nobody gets permits for anything if the property is their primary residence (and the inspectors don't care).
- NikolaNovak 6y ago
  https://www.atlantaduilawyer.com/blog/is-a-speeding-ticket-a-misdemeanor-in-georgia/ https://www.atlantaduilawyer.com/blog/is-a-speeding-ticket-a... Presumably we all have access to Google :)
  - cgriswald 6y ago
    From your source: > Unlike most states, Georgia has a very unique traffic code. Almost all traffic violations in Georgia are misdemeanors. Emphasis added.
- nitrogen 6y ago
  There are states where all traffic violations are classified as misdemeanors.

NikolaNovak 6y ago

There are so very very few people who can legitimately say they haven't committed a speeding offense in the last 12 months. Moreover - it's been demonstrated repeatedly that no single person can possibly make a claim that they have not run afoul of SOME municipal, state or federal law, regulation, code, rule, etc in any given time period. I'm known to my family as boring tame law & rule obeying buzz-kill, and I do not have anything remotely approaching the level of confidence and/or arrogance to make such a claim.

mehrdadn 6y ago
Someone also pointed this out in another thread, but generally speeding isn't a misdemeanor; it's an infraction.

ska 6y ago

This all depends on jurisdiction, of course, but there are tons of examples. Unless you are a very unusual person, you definitely have committed some recently. Did you ever roll through a stop sign without a complete stop or make a quick highway lane change without signaling? Reckless driving, up to officer discretion. Drove over the speed limit? Same goes many places. Ever forget your wallet and drive without your license? Drive with slightly over a legal limit of alcohol (hard to judge correctly)? Cross over a signed private property you don't have permission to access? Maybe you smoke and you are too close to a federal or state building access. Maybe your uncle gave you some hooch he made. Maybe you went to an unofficial nude beach. Been "drunk/disorderly in public" ? Again officer discretion but could easily be applied to majority of people leaving a club most Friday nights. Maybe you just live in a place where jaywalking is a misdemeanor. Honestly the lists are long and convoluted, and in many cases the discretion left to LEO mean that nearly anyone could be written up for it. Which is sort of the point.

cgriswald 6y ago
Nearly everything you’ve mentioned is an infraction (or even a “fixit”), not a misdemeanor, in every or nearly ever jurisdiction in the US. Whether to charge you with reckless is up to the cop, but without evidence—especially since cop cars have dash cams—it’s not likely to stick; especially for a first offense. (And OP asked what misdemeanor he committed anyway). And it’s very very easy to not drive above the legal limit for alcohol or to not drive recklessly. I’m not disagreeing with your overall point (although usually it’s expressed as people committing felonies every day) but these examples just aren’t making your point. Interestingly, violating the public health orders here has been a misdemeanor, and it’s pretty easy to have accidentally violated one for a moment.
- ska 6y ago
  I think more of them are at discression than you suggest. Speeding being one of them places I've lived. Regardless, the point stands I think. The point isn't that cops are handing out misdemeanors left and right, rather that it is fairly easy to dig around and find one that could be applied to nearly everyone.

triceratops 6y ago

> I haven't committed any misdemeanors in the past year. That you know of, or have been cited for.