You know, under the "Brown M&M" theory, this is maybe not a bad thing. A guy who just steals stuff doesn't belong among decent people. > “three strikes” laws, are a relic of failed “tough on crime” policies Note how they smuggled in the word "failed" Three strike laws WORKEDhttps://twitter.com/TimCushing/status/1313286927156641792 …
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2/ oh, to explain "Brown M&M" relevance: if a guy can't EVEN keep his hands off hedge trimmers, how is he going to not just cause chaos wherever he goes? his felonies: - armed robbery of a cab driver - robbing a Radio Shack - forging a check - robbing a home - hedge clippers
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3/ Playing with the timeline, we see that he was born c. 1960 or so, started committing felonies at age 19 (or maybe just started getting caught then), kept doing it to age 38. So 5 felonies in 19 years. He got caught once every 4 years. He's been in jail for 23 years >
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4/ At the rate he committed felonies before then, that's another 6 or so felonies he would have been caught for in that intervening period. Sure, doesn't seem like he's into rape or murder ... but armed robbery and burglary isn't super conducive to decent high trust society.
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Implusivity/testosterone/age correlations suggest it might still not be worthwile to continue his incarceration past a certain age. False positive/negative trade-offs, of course, but the criminal justice system is made out of those anyway.
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agreed I'm not arguing that we SHOULD, per se. I'm arguing against the strawman argument they're mounting for why we SHOULDN'T.
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