I don't necessarily believe in the 3 strikes law.

I've seen many people screwed over by smallish stuff with that but I do agree that we need something for repeat offenders over and over again who prove to be a menace regardless of any therapy or help they had even if they didn't murder anyone. There's people out there who have criminal records as long as 12 years of age and into adulthood where they somehow always get off on bail and nothing ever happens to them. I don't understand it. I don't understand how one can commit felonies over and over again and still be allowed outside particularly when the court KNOWS they'll run lol. It's like this over and over with people but yet it still happens.

So yeah while I agree that we should end things like war on drugs and war on anything, they should have special things in place for when people generally just become pests.

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TexChik · F

I like the third strike rule . 3 felonies should equal a life sentence to protect society. Anyone bad enough to get three deserves what they get .

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@TexChik In theory, not in practice though:

Some criticisms of three-strikes laws are that they clog the court system with defendants taking cases to trial in an attempt to avoid life sentences, and clog jails with defendants who must be detained while waiting for these trials because the likelihood of a life sentence makes them a flight risk. Life imprisonment is also an expensive correctional option, and potentially inefficient given that many prisoners serving these sentences are elderly and therefore both costly to provide health care services to and statistically at low risk of recidivism. Dependents of prisoners serving long sentences may also become burdensome on welfare services.

Prosecutors have also sometimes evaded the three-strikes laws by processing arrests as parole violations rather than new offenses, or by bringing misdemeanor charges when a felony charge would have been legally justified. Likewise, there is potential for witnesses to refuse to testify, and juries to refuse to convict, if they want to keep a defendant from receiving a life sentence; this can introduce disparities in punishments, defeating the goal of treating third-time offenders uniformly. Three-strikes laws have also been criticized for imposing disproportionate penalties and focusing too much on street crime rather than white-collar crime.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law#Criticism

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@TexChik

I like the third strike rule . 3 felonies should equal a life sentence to protect society. Anyone bad enough to get three deserves what they get .

Can you imagine how many politicians, Slave Patrollers, and rich people would be prison under your perfect system? Just about all of them.

And since everything is illegal in America you would also be in prison for all of the crimes you have committed but escaped detection.

TexChik · F

@Diotrephes How many politicians get convicted of anything? Or slavers. The libs just voted not to increase the penalties for traffickers. I dont break the law Mr Liberal.