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It's nice to see police that actually do something about petty crime. In the US, I feel like the police would just shrug and, if you were lucky, write up a repo

• whythre 4y ago
  A lot of that is because there is very little political will to seriously prosecute petty crime. In my city theft is basically handwaved, and the DA won’t prosecute it even if the cops did arrest someone.
  • warning26 4y ago
    That tracks; in Japan there’s a 99% conviction rate, so realistically if you get arrested you’re getting convinced. It may not be perfect, but it’s almost certainly better than “catch and release.”
    • glandium 4y ago
      The conviction rate (closer to 99.9%, btw) is for indicted people, not arrested. A lot of arrested people are released without being indicted. The prosecution rate is below 50% IIRC. Edit: indictment rate is actually closer to 36%, and 16% more have a suspension of indictment (i.e. police think they're guilty, but they're not indicted). 48% are simply released. The 99.9% applies to the 36%.
      • warning26 4y ago
        Ah, interesting! I’ll have to do some more reading about the Japanese legal system, since it seems my understanding is quite off the mark.
• wahnfrieden 4y ago
  The police will go after visible targets that have the public and business owners outraged. Don't expect them to go after much larger categories of property loss such as the #1 category and don't expect anyone to notice that.