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Without American cop show bluster, without pretrial detention except for serious crimes, and without lengthy prison sentences.
by TillE 4y ago
Without American cop show bluster, without pretrial detention except for serious crimes, and without lengthy prison sentences.
- prvit 4y agoMostly, except pretrial detention for minor crimes is unfortunately still not that uncommon in Europe. The lack of bail often makes this worse, a weird obsession with “fairness” forces us to continue locking up people with sufficient assets to insure against absconding. Poor people can’t afford bail? Better make everyone else suffer too.
- codedokode 4y agoIt is unfair indeed. A fair solution would be to improve conditions for everyone so that they can live in comfortable conditions before trial.
- Kbelicius 4y agoSo what you are basically saying is that poor people should suffer more for committing the same crime as someone rich.
- prvit 4y ago> So what you are basically saying is that poor people should suffer more for committing the same crime as someone rich. Do you believe that rich people should suffer more because poor people can’t afford bail? If you break a leg, should everyone else have their legs broken too? That’d be fair, right?
- Kbelicius 4y ago> Do you believe that rich people should suffer more because poor people can’t afford bail? They aren't suffering more than poor. > If you break a leg, should everyone else have their legs broken too? That’d be fair, right? No.
- prvit 4y ago> They aren't suffering more than poor. But they are suffering more than they would if given the ability to post bail.
- pyuser583 4y agoAnd without the same commitment to privacy. Police have much greater search powers in Europe and there is massive surveillance of public spaces. In the UK, junior policemen walk up to you and ask you to remove your hat. So the camera can see your face.