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Save us from the argument that it worked for Capone. Firstly, Capone was doing tax evasion and the crime of tax evasion had not been brought in to deter gang v
by moocowduckquack 13y ago
Save us from the argument that it worked for Capone.
Firstly, Capone was doing tax evasion and the crime of tax evasion had not been brought in to deter gang violence, which is the argument being used here about grafitti, but was considered a serious matter in and of itself.
Also the fact that one major crime boss was once able to be jailed through using tax evasion laws, does not therefore mean that this is a broadly applicable tactic and also does not mean that entire areas of law should be made harsher on the idea that some of the people you are doing for grafitti might be murderers. It is just pure nonsense.
- logfromblammo 13y agoNevertheless, lesser offenses are routinely selectively enforced against people whom the police find to be suspicious or even merely annoying, and ignored for everyone else. If you're open carrying a gun in Alabama and carrying an ice cream cone in your back pocket, guess what you will be arrested for--the ice cream cone, the thing that's actually illegal. Never mind that the police were called out in the first place for the gun.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoI haven't found any evidence that anyone has ever actually been arrested in Alabama for having an ice cream in their back pocket, the nearest I could find was that it was possibly once a tactic of horse rustlers or alternatively is possibly made up. As for folk being wrongfully arrested in Alabama for openly carrying arms, well there's the guy who walked into a bank with a handgun who is appealing his arrest. He got a $200 sentence and no jail time though.