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Originally Posted by kane
I don't disagree that 25 years is too much for stealing socks, but it is too much to ask citizens of this country to not commit to felonies and then commit a third crime?
I'm 43 years old and I have had some very hard times in my life and yet I have never stolen from a store or committed a felony. When do we say enough is enough? How many crimes to we let a person commit before we are done dealing with them?
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How many bankers do we allow to break the economy?
How many white people do we arrest for cocaine?
How many black people for crack?
Peoples behaviour is conditioned by the institutions they grow up in. Put a child in a loving family with a good school and interesting career ahead of him and most will flourish.
Put a child in a broken society with a family failing, crap schooling and the cops stopping you every 5 minutes and you will get crime.
If America spent the money it wastes on Wars and prisons and spent it on good jobs and schools you would have a fraction of the crime. Plus some civil rights.