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In ten years, will "theft of necessary items" no longer be a crime?
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:27 am
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:27 am
I've been reading about the varied reactions to the decision of the Dallas D.A. not to prosecute theft of necessary items under 750. This seems to be a slowly growing (for now) trend - to decriminalize petty theft (officially or otherwise).
So someone making $15 an hour working at a grocery store seems someone steal $100 worth of food - with no consequences. He'd have to think "I work 6-8 hours to buy that much food ... WTF?"
I also love the assumption that anyone who steals "necessary items" is forced to do it by economic circumstances.
If someone really had no food, there are food kitchens around. Stealing means that you simply don't like what the food kitchens are serving.
We have too many criminal laws, including the special theft laws that abound (e.g. theft of crawfish). But, letting thieves steal without consequence is bad policy. We are becoming an idiocracy that always seems to go to the lowest common denominator.
So someone making $15 an hour working at a grocery store seems someone steal $100 worth of food - with no consequences. He'd have to think "I work 6-8 hours to buy that much food ... WTF?"
I also love the assumption that anyone who steals "necessary items" is forced to do it by economic circumstances.
If someone really had no food, there are food kitchens around. Stealing means that you simply don't like what the food kitchens are serving.
We have too many criminal laws, including the special theft laws that abound (e.g. theft of crawfish). But, letting thieves steal without consequence is bad policy. We are becoming an idiocracy that always seems to go to the lowest common denominator.
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:28 am to chinhoyang
Thank liberals. It's not enough that they want to kill babies, they also want to legalize theft.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:28 am to chinhoyang
Food is not a necessary item. If you can’t afford it just starve to death
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:29 am to chinhoyang
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theft of crawfish)
should be a felony punishable by death on the spot, unless thief is willing to buy a couple of cases of beer to atone for his misdeed
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:30 am to chinhoyang
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We have too many criminal laws, including the special theft laws that abound (e.g. theft of crawfish).
Farming is a year round job and when trump goes to war with Iran for Israel you better hope farmers are still making your food so you don’t have to eat rats
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:31 am to chinhoyang
Quite the opposite. There will absolutely be a huge backlash for these types of policies.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:31 am to Tempratt
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Thank liberals. It's not enough that they want to kill babies, they also want to legalize theft.
The solution to the theft is right under your nose
Posted on 6/6/19 at 8:40 am to Tempratt
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Thank liberals. It's not enough that they want to kill babies, they also want to legalize theft.
Seriously man, you all do realize that the term Grand Theft Auto is no longer anything more that a video game right? Every frickin cop reality show on TV now calls this "Joy Riding" as if the dude who owns this $50k vehicle is somehow "Cool" with these felons in training borrowing it without permission or a key then wrecking, shitting, and eating in said vehicle(in that order) leaving them with an abhorrently smelling, no longer running, totally poisonous environmental disaster that requires a $700 payment each and every month completely blows my mind and I can't wrap my head around it. Nope, its Car theft. And if you steal the wrong one....
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