We prosecute property crimes every day. For better or worse. And it's far more humane and less expensive to pay restitution than it is to send people to our failed, massively expensive and criminogenic prisons.https://twitter.com/bay_snark/status/1274737205299122178 …
In one scenario, the taxpayers pay to keep the criminal off the streets and from committing more crime. In the second, taxpayers pay for the criminals’ actions and the criminals go free to commit more crime, leading to more payments. Are you really this f*cking dumb?