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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow about a 3 strikes law for white collar crimes?
Let's consider something here.
We're constantly being told how things like drugs and gang activity are the scourge of modern society. So we throw people in prison for life if they make three mistakes. This is somehow suppose to protect the rest of us from the damage they might wreak on society.
Well, what about the executives who grenade our entire economy? It seems like they're doing not just more damage but almost incomprehensibly more damage to millions of people.
Maybe we should turn the tables here. If we find that you committed three white collar crimes, your ass gets a permanent residence at the nearest federal prison.
Let all of the pot dealers out of prison. Let the low level offenders go. Let's make room for the the most dangerous men and women.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)n/t
snot
(10,538 posts)Courtesy Flush
(4,558 posts)and three convictions.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)make the money disappear somewhere. They're usually not repeat offenders.
I'd rather make the sentencing reflect the number of people they harmed.
These days, the only way for a white collar thief to go to prison is if he has the bad taste to bilk the rich. Fleecing the poor has become a sport and nobody cares about us.
mick063
(2,424 posts)There are powerful folks that are "too big" to prosecute. Folks so very powerful, that our economic system is in jeopardy if prosecuted.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)That isn't even happening. They have been changing the laws to make what was criminal legal.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)need use Google and look up what's been going on with banks, insurance companies and Wall Street the last decade. What was considered illegal in 1960 is quite legal now.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Is that really an issue?
When three strikes laws are applied, it is not for three (or more) crimes on a single spree, it is for three offenses after you've already been caught, prosecuted, and served sentence for two separate periods of criminality.
Does anyone convicted of white collar crime really get a chance to do two, or especially three such instances? It seems to me that the most forgiving of potential employers would never take a chance on someone who screwed the company twice.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)in an attempt to raise money for their drug habit.