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To be honest, can you blame them? The petty crimes fueled by drug use don't go away if you decriminalize it. We keep throwing money at homelessness but it does
by Noos 6y ago
To be honest, can you blame them?
The petty crimes fueled by drug use don't go away if you decriminalize it. We keep throwing money at homelessness but it doesn't seem to work at all because a lot of the problem homeless really need to be involuntarily committed for long term treatment of mental illness or addiction. Not many people want to go down that route, because we still don't really trust or are comfortable with that.
People are going to compensate the only way they can. You aren't going to chide them for locking their doors when policies make it easier for people to rob others.
- rootusrootus 6y agoDecriminalizing possession doesn't make burglary legal.
- Noos 6y agoDecriminalizing possession doesn't stop the need for people to steal to afford drugs, though. It also means people who do them will only interface with the criminal justice system when they commit these kinds of support crimes. They won't get scooped up for a lesser offense, yes. But if anything, it means when they do get scooped up it will be for a worse one, and it will happen.
- rootusrootus 6y agoI'm having a hard time seeing, though, that it will really change the number of drug users substantially. So the ones who were going to resort to burglary still will, and we will catch them and put them into the criminal justice system. But the users who manage to be otherwise gainfully employed (or at least self-sufficient enough without crime), we can forget about.
- cjaybo 6y ago> when policies make it easier for people to rob others. Which policies are those?
- gedy 6y agohttps://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014) https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_P...