(10-11-2023, 12:40 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-11-2023, 12:12 PM)Sneakers Wrote: The problem extends far beyond petty theft at a CVS, it's the complete lack of respect for law and order.  I'll lock him up for as long as it takes him to understand that.  

Don't you understand the difference between one individual taking a $3 item and an organized mob charging in, ransacking and looting?  If store employees or customers are assaulted during the theft, doesn't that raise the stakes dramatically?  How would you feel if your wife and kids were in the store, caught in the middle, when it happened?

I'll give him a job in prison before he gets out.  No work, no privileges.

Dear God man that's not how criminal justice works... there are maximum sentences.   
And you'll "give him a job"? Doing what? For whom? With what money?  Is any place doing this already? Is any prominent politician calling for these policies? Or are you just spitballing?

I'm aware of how our criminal justice system works theoretically, thanks.  Unlike you however, I'm not blind to its failure in reality.  The problem is not with maximum sentences, but with minimum, or the lack thereof.  If the likelihood of being caught is minimal and the penalty, if any, is a joke, where is the deterrent?   

Yes, there are already work release programs in effect for low-risk inmates.  As for the others, haven't you ever seen "Cool Hand Luke"?

Are you really indifferent to the prospect of your family out shopping, then suddenly surrounded by a mob of looters?  What is an appropriate minimum sentence for this crime?

When the DA publicly announces that certain crimes won't be prosecuted, here's the message it sends to the offender.

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