Re:Gas pumps happen to be about as insecure as your typical ...
by nsxwolf on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:13PM
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The crooks often already have a felony conviction, and are already living with the permanent consequences of that. The only remaining disincentive to crime for them is additional jail time, which can start to be seen as just a cost of doing business - X years for Y dollars.
Re:Gas pumps happen to be about as insecure as your typical ...
by indymike on Sunday March 20, 2022 @10:28AM
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In not sure the trade is that simple. Everyone I've known that has served time did the crime for one of two reasons:
Most of the people who did financial crimes: Got away with it multiple times and just assumed they wouldn't get caught.
The rest: totally irrational and fueled by mental health problems. Addictions, depression, relationship problems...
I wish we were as good at helping people as we are at isolating and punishing. If punishment was a good deterrent, we wouldn't have roughly .7% of the adult population in jail.
I don't think the kind of people who are robbing gas really care about weather this is a bad idea. That's why sometimes the right answer is to focus on preventing the crime because...
> You could end up with a felony conviction.
The crooks really don't care. It's all about not getting caught.