re: All of this "The Law is The Law" B.S. is comical....

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You can’t see a difference between prosecuting rapists and murderers who prey upon society and using the legal system to go after your political enemies

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Both levels of criminal activity are a danger to our social integrity. Same thing with white-collar crime: hacking a company out of millions of dollars is worse IMO than a street thug playing the "knockout game" and robbing a homeless man of ten dollars.

Crime is crime, and it's all dangerous to orderly social functioning. If Trump committed felony bribery, he should be prosecuted for it.

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Nobody IIT is arguing for eliminating laws against violent crimes.

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Well, your ilk are for eliminating penalties for violent crimes in many jurisdictions.

Meanwhile, progressives (and I include Bloomberg, even though he's nothing close to what NYC has experienced since Giuliani) pass laws which have gotten people killed for the sake of tax revenue.

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“The tax went up, and we started selling 10 times as much,” Mr. Warner said. “Bloomberg thinks he’s stopping people from smoking. He’s just turning them onto loosies.”

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That was more than a decade ago, and *without question* impacted non-whitey.

That's not broken windows policing (property crime,) it's a crime against the state that wants taxes. But then Eric Garner?

Like in Louisiana during the Dateline time of vehicle seizures on I-10, getting tax and seizure revenue should exactly be an unsolicited reaction from LEO. If I don't pay $20k in state taxes for two years, great, suspend my license and impound my car if you find me breaking the law for anything that is warranted other than a bullshite Terry stop.

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These amounts should go into their respective state general funds by law, outside of the control of the locality or policing agency.

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I wonder what the state will do in reaction to a "guideline" like this? Hmm... Wonder where that will go. More highway or education funds for shitty little towns that issue more tickets which the state benefits from? Everyone, everyone, responds to incentives.