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How overcriminalization is turning everyday Americans into lawbreakers
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 77588984:MV80MTcyNzUxXzc1ODQ5OTExXzY1RTVFRDRB] [quote:Anonymous Coward 21036733:MV80MTcyNzUxXzc1ODQ4ODcyXzEzQzgxNjI0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 77723296:MV80MTcyNzUxXzVCQTcxMTM5] How overcriminalization is turning everyday Americans into lawbreakers https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/how-overcriminalization-is-turning-everyday-americans-into-lawbreakers [/quote] country is in the midst of a crisis of criminality: At this very moment, more criminals are walking our streets than ever before. How is this possible, especially in light of the FBI’s latest statistics showing yet another drop in crime rates? The answer lies not with the American people, but with our laws. We have more criminals because, quite simply, we have turned everyday citizens into unwitting lawbreakers by adding layer upon layer to our criminal codes and turning nearly every conceivable misdeed into a criminal offense. Poor decisions become misdemeanors, misdemeanors evolve into felonies, and lives spin out of control in the process. Perhaps nowhere is the absurdity of current law on better display than at the federal level. Educated guesses place the number of laws and regulations with criminal penalties at over 300,000, but no one can say with certainty how many there actually are. If the federal government with its trillions of dollars and millions of employees cannot keep track of all of these criminal penalties, what chance do ordinary people have? [/quote] This And there's an even more insidious element to this. They make a law with potentially heavy penalties and then selectively enforce it against people the state has something against. Take pot laws as a great example, you have 1g of flower(regular pot) or 1g of some hash or oil(extract), the cops could charge you with posession of marijuana for both but in some states they can upgrade that to a felony for the gram of extract. Now imagine that cop just doesn't like the look of your face or is having a bad day, which one do you think you're gonna get charged with? Or gun laws, they make sure the law abiding are crossing every t and dotting every i but our inner cities have oodles of guns and nothing is done. Selective enforcement is just another form of tyranny. [/quote]
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