Well, I'm thinkin' that we're missing something here...

Just who are the bad people? Pot smokers? Prostitutes? bert has a very good point in that we are using up tremendous amounts of resources investigating, arresting, trying and incarcerating supposed "bad people" for crimes in which there are no victims, other than perhaps themselves.

Meanwhile, thieves, bad check writers, spose beaters are allowed pretty much a free reign to continue criminal acts without much interference at all from the law enforcment arm of society.

This was the point I was trying to make earlier. When folks are allowed to get away with the garden variety crimes, it is no wonder that they move right up the ladder.

Now we could devote an entire thread to environmental conditions that create such a sub culture of bad folks, but for here, I'd like to see the victimless crimes get less attention and crimes where there is a victim get a lot more.

And I am very serious that for first time offenders of minor crimes, some level of public humilition is not out of order. I don't care if it's putting on a yellow jacket and made to pick up trash. Fines are too easy a way out.

Bobert