Question for @chesaboudin: How is it #criminaljusticereform to allow a woman to shoplift 128 times before arresting? Now she’s facing 8 felonies and 120 misdemeanors. Might be wise to get involved earlier in the process so people’s lives aren’t destroyed with a record like that.
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Replying to @sfironicle @chesaboudin
How do you know early on who is going to evolve into such a criminal and who warrants intervention? Not everyone does, I'd posit few do. How much would it cost to spread those interventions across all who might evolve into a serial criminal?
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Well, let's just say she was arrested early on and did some time and had to do community service. Perhaps she would understand that there is consequence for the illegal and socially frowned upon actions and cease such behavior. Instead, her behavior was at best ignored/ condoned.
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At the base of that funnel are many times more people who will not evolve into criminals who do not need intervention. Intervention is expensive at those scales. Why not show us how that would pencil out fiscally and outcomes-wise?
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Replying to @ec0anarch0 @JSchrakamp and
Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that after the 50th time, she’s not going to stop unless incapacitated in some way from doing so…
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That’s not the topic of this thread. Are we as taxpayers willing to pay 10K times the value of goods stolen to imprison or otherwise confine or treat petty thieves? We’d do best to provide a UBI of $50K and be fine with it.
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