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The Philadelphia district attorney, for instance, has in effect decriminalized thefts of up to $500. Boston’s district attorney actually campaigned, before her election last year, with a list of crimes her office would not prosecute — including drug distribution, “larceny under $250,” receiving stolen property, trespassing, malicious destruction of property and resisting arrest.
In San Francisco, the new DA has vowed not to prosecute “quality of life” crimes such as public urination and prostitution. And the new DA in Fairfax County said during his campaign that he wouldn’t prosecute as a felony any larceny below $1,500 (ignoring the state threshold of $500), would not seek cash bail for felonies and would charge unlawful immigrants more leniently than U.S. citizens for the same crimes in order to circumvent the immigration consequences of the crimes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...9dff76-109b-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html
The above is an opinion piece written by Jeffrey Rosen the deputy attorney general of the US. It was an intext link in something else I was reading. I'm not a fan of WaPo and don't usually read them unless it's absolutely necessary.
Here is the thing, what is listed above is the wrong way to go. There will be a backlash if reason does not prevail and we will go backward not forward. This is not how it's done. At some point people have to stop focusing on how much they hate/love Trump and start focusing on the real world.
In San Francisco, the new DA has vowed not to prosecute “quality of life” crimes such as public urination and prostitution. And the new DA in Fairfax County said during his campaign that he wouldn’t prosecute as a felony any larceny below $1,500 (ignoring the state threshold of $500), would not seek cash bail for felonies and would charge unlawful immigrants more leniently than U.S. citizens for the same crimes in order to circumvent the immigration consequences of the crimes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...9dff76-109b-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html
The above is an opinion piece written by Jeffrey Rosen the deputy attorney general of the US. It was an intext link in something else I was reading. I'm not a fan of WaPo and don't usually read them unless it's absolutely necessary.
Here is the thing, what is listed above is the wrong way to go. There will be a backlash if reason does not prevail and we will go backward not forward. This is not how it's done. At some point people have to stop focusing on how much they hate/love Trump and start focusing on the real world.