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Originally Posted by indiscriminate_hater
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You would love the DA of San Francisco, Chesa Boudin. He is an advocate of restorative justice, wherein criminals forego prison sentences in favor of programs that are meant to restore them as useful members of society. Very noble in theory.
Unfortunately, the reality over the past couple of years has been that crime has skyrocketed, in large part because the disincentive of going to prison has been removed. Criminals have been caught and released for serious crimes over and over again with little to no repurcussion.
See an example here, and a more egregious example here. In that second story, a man with a string of previous felonies had been released to the public. He then went on to carjack the minivan of a man who was delivering for Doordash and happened to have his two small children in the backseats. So after a carjacking and double kidnapping that triggered an Amber Alert, what happened to this man after he was caught? He was again quickly released.
These are not cherry-picked or isolated issues, they are examples of a very long string of similar stories that has led to massive recall efforts across the city to remove the DA. Imagine that - in the most liberal city in America, nearly unanimous support to recall a progressive leader.
This is the problem with armchair liberals saying "well if we just did this, society would be fixed." Your thoughts are not original, your ideas are half-baked, and policies like this will inevatibly fail in the real world because people and society are complex. Mankind has had thousands of years to figure out that there has to be some disincentive to doing crime. In what world does your handful of years and experience qualify you to challenge that? |
Both can be true and both options implemented. They should be implemented by a board of individuals called a jury. And the sentance should be variable based on circumstances.
There is no good reason to violently rob anyone. If someone is willing to commit violence. It is time to join a militia and serve your community as a soldier, builder, or martyr. Not as an outlaw. Death sucks. We can put people in safe places were they can't do themselves or other people harm when they cannot make these determinations. This is why Starkinds do not 'hate' people who are fed up with the system. Starkind simply accepts that some people are broken, dangerous, or too hurt or disabled to do the right thing and need supervision and less (a lot less usually) freedom. This should be America's #1 priority. Those people shouldn't have such easy access to guns either. Not because Starkind hates these people and wants them to be powerless, but because starkind is tired of seeing people kill each other over junk food and convienience. Out of a lack of courtesy, respect, and desperation. Starkind believes this country needs a lot more than just heavy handed and loosely enforced policing.