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What I find almost more scary is that instead of anybody in the system using a little common sense and human decency when processing this guy, they right away t
by acabal 15y ago
What I find almost more scary is that instead of anybody in the system using a little common sense and human decency when processing this guy, they right away threw him in jail. Couldn't the police have, when they found him in the bank, seen his situation and tried to resolve things on a human level instead immediately calling down the full force of the system and throwing him in jail and before a judge for what is clearly more of a desperate cry for help than a crime?
A crime is a crime, but we're all people too. Sometimes doing everything precisely by the book isn't what's appropriate, and a little common sense and understanding is called for instead.
I hate the criminalization of everything in America almost as much as I hate our backwards healthcare system.
Edit: unless even the police thought they were doing the humane and common-sense thing by putting him in jail to get health care--in which case I don't know what to do but hang my head.
- phxrsng 15y agoWhat you are suggesting is exactly the circumvention of a system designed to take into account mitigating factors (this is why there is a mitigation section of sentencing). You suggest that the responding officers at the scene of a crime (no matter that yes, this was not a violent crime or one committed with malice) become the judge. That's an incredibly slippery slope. And in this case, whats the officer to do? He can't just magically arrange free or reduced cost medical treatment for the man he was just called to arrest for attempting to rob a bank.