How not to end up in jail with a felony

Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony by mrguyorama on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:34PM (#33335115)

This is the kind of work and effort you have to put in when the legal system stops caring about small dollar value theft. This isn't some anti-california thing either, I don't believe the cops when they say they don't go after small dollar crimes because of the DA because cops having been ignoring small time crime my entire life. They're just too lazy.

When my job gives me a task that's hard and complicated and has lots of paperwork, I don't get to say "naw I don't want to".

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Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony by joshribakoff on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:17PM (#33335574)

When did cops say they don’t “go after” theft? I believe they don’t prioritize investigating it, but they can’t refuse to take a report

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Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony by handoflixue on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:50PM (#33335988)

"Taking a report" doesn't do anything to solve the crime; it's simply paperwork for things like insurance, to prove that a crime happened.

The complaint is exactly that they "don't prioritize investigating it", because that is the point where police are actually providing a useful service.

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Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony by felixr on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:03PM (#33336732)

> When my job gives me a task that's hard and complicated and has lots of paperwork, I don't get to say "naw don't want to".

I would probably see it more like low priority bugs in an issue tracker. They only get done when there's nothing with higher priority or someone takes a person personal interest.

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Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony by alpineidyll3 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @09:18PM (#33338495)

A family members identity was just stolen by a low level medical records employee. This woman is passing bad checks with a fake ID and her identity. Daily she is getting called about it, and it's luck she hasn't been arrested or needed credit.

The police will do nothing, because our governments are responsive to nothing because they don't have to be. Safe seats and gerrymandering have rotted out Democracy.

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Re:How not to end up in jail with a felony by jollyllama on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @11:16AM (#33345007)

The perverse incentive here is that if the legal system doesn't do their job, they will still have on-demand access to the dystopian corporate surveillance structure built to cover their negligence.

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