re: Boston DA lists crimes she won’t prosecute

Have charges of harassment or any other myriad of laws aside from those three that those actions violate brought against you?

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This happens all the time.

Cops charge people with this if they can't get them for anything else and they claim they are "uncooperative" when trying to detain them temporarily or investigate them for a crime they end up not being able to prove.

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Maybe it happens, but I’ve never seen it in my life.

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A resisting arrest charge combined with only charges that all fall under the list of charges to decline to prosecute,

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so resisting arrest when you have intent to distribute its automatically getting thrown out.
"we just trying to make a livin outch yer"

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But that's not AT ALL even close to what she's doing. She's attempting to unburden busy courts and overcrowded jails by empowering her prosecutors to make deals with misdemeanor criminals that will keep them OUT of the system and place them into programs to educate them, perform community service, etc.

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LOL. Educate them. LOL.


I'm against it because she's subsidizing it, and in the process creating MORE of it. It's basic economics, basic human nature stuff.

Let me give you an example. The city that is probably most infamous for pick pocketing in the world is Barcelona. They get hundreds of thefts of some kind of tourists per day. It's not a matter of if, more a matter of when somebody tries to grab your shite in Barcelona. Do you know what the law says in Barcelona? Any theft of less than 400 Euros can result in a maximum of a 200 dollar fine. And obviously no arrest or criminal exposure. They have de-criminalized theft and as a result they get UNLIMITED theft. Again, if you incentivize something, you get more of it. It's pure folly. Only an ideologue fights the basic laws of human nature and behavior. You guys truly believe you can tinker around the edges of the law and CHANGE human nature. It's just laughable. As proof, let's observe where this goes for Boston.

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legalizing minor theft, shoplifting

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Did you miss the portion where the article spoke about diversion, restitution, and community service?

I'm with a DA trying to find ways to let bad decision making "kids" not frick up their lives over minor offenses. Depending on the implementation, this could be a good thing.

Violation of Private Nuisance Law

"To prove a case of private nuisance, a plaintiff must prove the following: 1) the defendant improperly created, permitted, or maintained a condition or activity that interfered with the plaintiff’s use and enjoyment of his or her property; 2) the interference was substantial and unreasonable; and 3) the defendant had some kind of interest in the property where the nuisance originated."

Harrassment

"You can ask for a Harassment Prevention Order (a "258E Order) from a judge if you’re suffering from harassment because someone has committed 3 or more acts:

That were willful and malicious. This means it was done on purpose and was done for cruelty, hostility or revenge
Were aimed at you.
Were intended to cause you fear, intimidation, abuse, or damage to property. “Abuse” means causing or attempting to cause physical harm, or causing fear of imminent serious physical harm.
Did in fact cause you fear, intimidation, abuse or damage to property"

Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

"a plaintiff must show:

that the defendant intended to inflict emotional distress or that he knew, or should have known, that emotional distress was the likely result of his conduct;

that the defendant’s conduct was extreme and outrageous, beyond all possible bounds of decency, and was utterly intolerable in a civilized community;

that the actions of the defendant were the cause of the plaintiff’s distress; and

that the emotional distress sustained by the plaintiff was severe and of a nature that no reasonable man could be expected to endure it."



That's just three off the top of my head.

I get the point you're attempting to make with your example, you just did an extremely shitty job doing so.

They’ll just bog down probation offices and enrich the prosecutor’s office. Oh, and a great
majority of these people will not comply and will earn warrants

Quit using your brain in this thread. That's not what this thread is about. It's about calling liberals stupid!

We recently tried this approach, petty crime increased dramatically.

Boston will find out shortly.

I worked in a small parish prosecutor’s offfice and most of the crimes listed with the exception of drugs were filtered into pre-trial diversion. I have a hard time buying that Boston was not already doing the same. What this is about is declining cases altogether