(10-14-2023, 07:49 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

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

I think people who steal stuff or try to steal stuff should go to jail.  I've never said any different.  If I was in a city where I didn't feel like the cops were doing enough to stop theft and catch thieves, I would move. It's why I live in a city now, not an unincorporated area. In my personal experience, Orange County Sheriff doesn't care about robbery, but the various cities in Orange County do.

I don't know what kind of mold you think I'm in that I need to break.  Where do you come up with this stuff?

I'm happy to pay more taxes to put more cops out there to catch the bad guys and more prosecutors and public defenders and judges to process them, but I think sentences are long enough already. I would pay more taxes on efforts to get ex cons back into the workforce (where they will pay tax dollars) than I would to keep them in jail longer (where they will consume tax dollars).

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