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This is the problem with our police not investigating property crime. If you could trust society will stop these people in short order, then there will be less
by coryrc 5y ago
This is the problem with our police not investigating property crime. If you could trust society will stop these people in short order, then there will be less crime and the chance of this happening will be low, and you'll just feel especially unlucky.
But I live in an area with high property crime and the police do nothing about it, as desired by the local government representatives. That's a recipe for vigilantism.
- wincy 5y agoIn the US they’re far too busy prosecuting people for having a gram of cocaine on them to have time to prosecute people stealing catalytic converters and actually hurting someone.
- Lucasoato 5y agoMaybe because they're selling catalytic converters to buy cocaine?
- coryrc 5y agoMost of the people around here doing these property crimes are illegal drug addicts. Seattle does not prosecute drug crimes.
- passerby1 5y agoDo you mean being drug adict in Seattle makes a person immune to (at least some of the) law?
- swearwolf 5y agoIt does end up working that way in practice, though it’s not quite as straightforward as that. What’s really happening is that courts are very backed up, jails are full, and judges release most people on their own recognizance within about 72 hours of the crime. They still have to go to court for that crime…eventually, but in the mean time, there’s nothing to stop them from going right back at it when they get released. There are people who have been arrested dozens upon dozens of times, and by now must have a list of court hearings a mile long, but they keep getting put back out on the street while they await their hearing. So in effect, at least for now, they are immune to prosecution.
- colechristensen 5y agoIn my city they're too busy running from one violent crime to the next, they're understaffed (under statutory minimums) and if you didn't get shot they won't come help. This is seen as the socially progressive thing to do. I was attacked in a road rage incident, they didn't come. There was video, a witness, a traffic camera all available, they didn't investigate or prosecute. Shots were fired outside of my apartment on the street the other day, the police didn't come. I would rather not take the law into my own hands, but what choice does a person have?
- passerby1 5y agoWhat country/city do you live in? Just curious.
- esyir 5y agoSounds like some blue state in the US. (gunshots = USA, reference to progressive policy ruling implies blue state)
- egberts1 5y agoas opposed to the sound of hunting season or “firearm discharges”.
- colechristensen 5y agoThis is Minneapolis.