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That’s a disturbing trend in the U.S. that is getting worse as time goes on. It’s disturbingly true in criminal matters. If crime isn’t too egregious you can
by syops 5y ago
That’s a disturbing trend in the U.S. that is getting worse as time goes on. It’s disturbingly true in criminal matters. If crime isn’t too egregious you can avoid just punishment by having the resources to tie up the DA’s office.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThis is just how things work when there's so many laws and they're so broad that the scope of "prosecutable criminal behavior" exceeds enforcement resources. Of course the DA's are gonna pick the easy wins with good optics and avoid hard targets and/or rocking the boat. That's just rational decision making. You can either increase resources and create a police state or decrease the amount of prosecutable criminal behavior and have people complain that "there ought to be a law" about <pet issue goes here>.