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Punish crime?
by 8b16380d 3y ago
Punish crime?
- BMc2020 3y agoexactly. If they wanted to stop it they could.
- brookst 3y agoWalk me through your reasoning? These flash mobs wouldn’t happen if…
- arsome 3y agoThere was substantial risk of being prosecuted, or failing that, shot and killed.
- croes 3y agoThe US already have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world so it seems like that doesn't work.
- thebears5454 3y agohttps://ktla.com/news/local-news/3-arrested-for-luxury-handbag-theft-in-glendale/ https://ktla.com/news/local-news/3-arrested-for-luxury-handb... They've already caught some of them. This simply isn't true.
- CamperBob2 3y agoAnd what happens after they're caught...?
- brookst 3y agoWhy don’t you speculate for us?
- CamperBob2 3y agoI don't have to speculate; that would be your department. There are records. What happens after they are arrested is that they're released to the same communities they attacked previously.
- thebears5454 3y agoThey're currently being charged with felonies, but they all 3 have been released with $20,000 bail.
- brookst 3y agoLaw enforcement works on statistics and psychology. We do not have nearly enough police or prisons to prosecute dramatically more people. And the US is already the most incarcerated country; this “just build more jails” reasoning seems as suspect as “the solution to having the highest rates of gun violence is more guns”.
- moralestapia 3y agoNot GP but ... ... if the people involved in them were sent to jail.
- TimTheTinker 3y agoBingo. This is the real issue. DAs are refusing to prosecute, so criminals are back on the street within hours or days of being arrested. It's so bad that cops in Southern California try very hard to find evidence that will allow them to hand a criminal over to the feds -- because federal prosecutors will actually prosecute, but state prosecutors will not. (Source: I'm friends with a cop in socal who specializes in theft crime rings) We need to throw out these inept district attorneys and never elect such people again. A bigger question: how did they get elected en-mass in the first place?
- lokar 3y agoCan you point to a case of a DA refusing to prosecute a case of organized theft like this?
- goda90 3y ago> how did they get elected en-mass in the first place? It's a reaction to unjust laws, for-profit prison systems, lack of police accountability, and high rates of recidivism from not treating the cause of lots of crime.
- TimTheTinker 3y agoIf that's the case, then it's abundantly clear that the reaction is causing even more problems.
- brookst 3y agoOr perhaps dismantling a cancer is leaving the patient susceptible to pneumonia.
- anigbrowl 3y ago
- CamperBob2 3y ago... the participants were sitting in jail following their last attempt at pulling something like this.
- squokko 3y ago... participating in one carried a 2% risk of death and a 10% risk of permanent disability
- foogazi 3y agoYes, because that’s what stopped people from doing drugs, speeding or downhill skiing
- CamperBob2 3y agoBut those all have much better odds, by orders of magnitude.
- foogazi 3y ago…the people doing the flash mob were in jail
- thebears5454 3y agoThey've already caught, arrested and charged some of these people.