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Re:It's Time to Mandate Treatment of the Dangerously Mentall... by cirgue on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:38PM (#33110529)
The justice system has nontrivial checks on the power of the state to incarcerate people and it already has massive problems, what would a system without those checks do?
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Re:It's Time to Mandate Treatment of the Dangerously Mentall... by giantg2 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @12:44PM (#33110649)
Probably similar things as the civil law parts. See the flagrant abuses of things like restraining orders and red flag laws in divorces, or civil asset forfeiture, etc.
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