(10-12-2023, 08:46 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-12-2023, 07:46 AM)Sneakers Wrote: 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.

You literally wrote that a convict should remain in jail until they've learned their lesson.  Two problems with that.  Obvious ones.  One, no one can know if they've learned their lesson, and two, there is a maximum sentence.  There is a limit on how long a person can be held for a given crime. 

Don't flail at me with more red herrings.  Don't imply or infer that I voted for or supported any of these silly "soft on crime" DA's.  Don't refer to 50 year old movies as if they represent today's reality when they didn't even represent reality then. 

Deal with the fact that the unemployment rate is insanely high among ex-cons.  Deal with the fact that many prisons are already overcrowded. Deal with your own ugly stupidity and pipe down until you do.  Reality is your problem, man, not me.

True to form, when faced with a tough question that you either can't answer, or are afraid to answer, you toss out an insult and run away.  

Here's reality, the Left is SOFT on crime, and you unfailingly regurgitate the rhetoric being spoon-feed to you in defense thereof.  If you don't support "soft on crime DA's", break the mold (or grow a pair), and say so.  I've twice asked you about the possibility of a mob-robbery erupting in a store where your wife and kids could be, and you won't even state how you would feel about it???

Of course the unemployment rate is sky-high with ex-cons.  There are very valid reasons why this is true now and can be expected to remain so into the future.  Personally, I would be happy to pay more taxes to fund the construction of as many additional prisons as we need to keep the streets safe, would you?  

If there is no threat of penalty, there is no deterrent.

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