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This is prosecutors gaming the system to try and make something stick. If you're comfortable with prosecutors being able to play games with people's lives beca

This is prosecutors gaming the system to try and make something stick. If you're comfortable with prosecutors being able to play games with people's lives because they've made a personal judgment call to maximize their ability to punish people, great! The system is working the way you want it to. Not everyone is comfortable with that.

delecti 4y ago
I'm broadly in favor of shorter (or no) prison sentences for most offenses, but my empathy doesn't extend quite as far for someone who runs a crypto scam to dupe and and steal $2B from thousands of middle-class people. I think that most white collar offenses are disgustingly under-punished, and the knowledge that this will likely come down considerably means I'm not at all offended by this.
- ipaddr 4y ago
  Which crimes would you reduce/remove prison sentences? Murder, rape, assault, fraud, robbery, kidnapping?
  - delecti 4y ago
    It was probably imprecise to say "most", because I suppose I don't know the proportional breakdown of which crimes led to all of the convictions, or the breakdown of what all the crimes are. That said, I think most property crime is motivated by desperation, and prison rarely does anything to help improve the lives of someone who only resorted to anti-social behavior because they had little other choice. So I think most robbery should only be punished because of the violent aspect, and most burglary should be "punished" with halfway houses or a system like the Civilian Conservation Corps. I also think drug related crime is a huge waste of time, and that the damage caused by drug dealing/smuggling/manufacturing is a fairly direct result of it being illegal, rather than intrinsic to the "industry". I think the justice system would need to be entirely reformed before it would make sense to reduce prison sentences for violent crime like murder, rape, or kidnapping. Though I think we're doing more harm than good throwing such people in prison for decades without any real rehabilitation involved.
  - majewsky 4y ago
    How about jaywalking? Or carrying a gram of weed?
  - landemva 4y ago
    Rolling a stop sign. Drunk driving. But if you hit someone while driving, you get charged with felony assualt with a deadly weapon.

delecti 4y ago

I'm broadly in favor of shorter (or no) prison sentences for most offenses, but my empathy doesn't extend quite as far for someone who runs a crypto scam to dupe and and steal $2B from thousands of middle-class people. I think that most white collar offenses are disgustingly under-punished, and the knowledge that this will likely come down considerably means I'm not at all offended by this.

ipaddr 4y ago
Which crimes would you reduce/remove prison sentences? Murder, rape, assault, fraud, robbery, kidnapping?
- delecti 4y ago
  It was probably imprecise to say "most", because I suppose I don't know the proportional breakdown of which crimes led to all of the convictions, or the breakdown of what all the crimes are. That said, I think most property crime is motivated by desperation, and prison rarely does anything to help improve the lives of someone who only resorted to anti-social behavior because they had little other choice. So I think most robbery should only be punished because of the violent aspect, and most burglary should be "punished" with halfway houses or a system like the Civilian Conservation Corps. I also think drug related crime is a huge waste of time, and that the damage caused by drug dealing/smuggling/manufacturing is a fairly direct result of it being illegal, rather than intrinsic to the "industry". I think the justice system would need to be entirely reformed before it would make sense to reduce prison sentences for violent crime like murder, rape, or kidnapping. Though I think we're doing more harm than good throwing such people in prison for decades without any real rehabilitation involved.
- majewsky 4y ago
  How about jaywalking? Or carrying a gram of weed?
- landemva 4y ago
  Rolling a stop sign. Drunk driving. But if you hit someone while driving, you get charged with felony assualt with a deadly weapon.