Comments on: Law Enforcement https://windypundit.com/2014/02/law-enforcement/ Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind. Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: What Democracy’s All About? https://windypundit.com/2014/02/law-enforcement/#comment-14602 Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:56:32 +0000 http://windypundit.com/?p=6615#comment-14602 […] their laws and they passed them anyway. The resulting deaths are statistically inevitable. As I’ve said before, I wish legislatures would think about how laws are enforced before they pass […]

]]> By: Mark Draughn https://windypundit.com/2014/02/law-enforcement/#comment-12847 Wed, 26 Feb 2014 05:44:56 +0000 http://windypundit.com/?p=6615#comment-12847 I don’t know about robberies, but I’m sure the fines and penalties feed back in a few other ways. Poor people often live so close to the edge that a few days in jail or even just a loss of the right to drive can set off a cascade of missed work, lost job, repo’d car, missed rent, eviction, and social workers coming to take the kids.

]]> By: russ https://windypundit.com/2014/02/law-enforcement/#comment-12826 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:19:54 +0000 http://windypundit.com/?p=6615#comment-12826 The sad fact is very few people have ever spent 60 seconds in a criminal court.

I’ve spent 60 minutes in a criminal court (55 minutes were spent on the cases before mine) and it became pretty obvious that EVERYONE was involved in a victimless crime and most of the people were there because the poor slobs couldn’t come up with the money for the outrageous fine.

I’m convinced that 90% of robberies (and maybe higher in poor neighborhoods) are a way to come up with the money to pay fines. Which means the justice system is creating more victims.

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