> We need to revise our criminal code to apply harsher penalties to this kind of behavior. We'd have to be careful about that since research shows that past a

> We need to revise our criminal code to apply harsher penalties to this kind of behavior. We'd have to be careful about that since research shows that past a certain point harsher penalties do not act as a deterrent. It might be that being a little bit harsher improves the situation, but the tendency is the US is to go way overboard to the point that the US locks up more of its citizens than any other nation on Earth, and even an arrest is enough to cause someone to lose their job while a conviction can cause someone to because virtually unemployable for the rest of their lives. It might be better to focus on making it more likely that people are caught at all for stealing packages than increasing punishments for the ones that do get caught.