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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by VictorPath on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:36AM (#29963939)
America's incarceration rate is over nine times that of a country like Denmark's. You see the comments here from Americans - even more people need to be incarcerated, the DAs are too soft. People elect these DAs because they are tired of police brazenly murdering people on video and locking everyone up.
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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by throwaway1777 on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:14AM (#29964149)
If someone robbed a train in Denmark would they go to jail? No one is saying we shouldn’t find ways to prevent people from committing crimes in the first place, but this experiment in california with having no consequences isn’t working, that’s pretty obvious.
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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by kuyan on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:34AM (#29964245)
> If someone robbed a train in Denmark would they go to jail?

In Denmark, would the robbery happen in the first place?

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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by throwaway1777 on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:39AM (#29964273)
It could. Maybe california should send their criminals over to Denmark to see what happens.
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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by throwaway829 on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:22AM (#29964196)
American is large. Some DA's are soft. Some are hard. LA's is definitely way too soft. It's dropping the standard of living for common working class people.
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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by xyzzyz on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:40AM (#29963958)
US also has, like, heck of a lot more crime than Denmark. We don’t arrest and jail people for the hell of it.
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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by beefield on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:01AM (#29964071)
And based on comments here, it seems that many of you guys seriously think that a solution is... arresting and jailing more people? Somehow brings mind the quote about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

And from my European point of view, the three strikes thing is pretty much a definition of jailing people for the hell of it.

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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by throwaway1777 on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:10AM (#29964120)
If someone committed the same crime in Europe you would put them in jail too, would you not?
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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by beefield on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:49AM (#29964343)
Context was how to reduce crime, not whether a specific crime should yield jail time.
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Re:Union Pacific Addresses LA Cargo Thefts; Problem Requires... by xyzzyz on Monday January 17, 2022 @02:46AM (#29964313)
Yes, that’s how the European country I moved to US from deals with crime. US is insanely lenient toward petty criminals compared to Europe.
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