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re: California took a big step in rolling back the War on Drugs, Prison Overcrowding
Posted on 11/7/14 at 7:54 pm to Jake88
Posted on 11/7/14 at 7:54 pm to Jake88
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So now the pendulum swings the other way. Crime is at its max when sentencing is lax and inconsistent leading to three strikes. Crime declines consistently since its passage and now people are crying about unfair incarceration leading to a loosening of sentencing. Crime will go up, rinse repeat.
The point of the proposition went over your head.
It's like you don't get why or are ignoring why prohibition in the 20s was an utter failure of epic proportions and not applying the historical lessons to today's times with the War on Drugs.
The WOD has harmed everybody; taxpayers paying for an ever increasing prison state that rivals only a select few countries for the biggest in the world, it's harmed the black community and taken away male guidance away from impressionable youths over simple drug indiscretions, reduced and eroded civil liberties and expanded and increased the police state into a reality where SWAT is literally being used for anything at all.
I hope California's proposition is a model to follow for the rest of the country going forward.
This post was edited on 11/7/14 at 7:56 pm
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Posted on 11/7/14 at 8:47 pm to Sentrius
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and taken away male guidance away from impressionable youths over simple drug indiscretions,
It's as if you really believe their are a significant number of "non-violent" offenders. Spend some time nosing around the histories of these "non-violent" offenders and most of the time you'll find violent histories.
To be clear though, I have no problem with the legalization of marijuana.
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The point of the proposition went over your head.
No, it didn't. I simply don't agree with it.
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The state is most notorious for its 1994 "Three Strikes and You're Out" law, which imposed a life sentence for almost any crime, no matter how small, if the defendant had two prior convictions deemed serious or violent by the California Penal Code.
The state should be congratulated for that law. Let me emphasize again, serious or violent. For the naive, people like that have rarely, rarely committed only two serious or violent crimes. They've committed many more before they actually got arrested for those. Those people should be sentenced harshly. If there is no space, build more jails.
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