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People are getting locked and loaded for what?
Zombies of course.People are getting locked and loaded for what?
As the coronavirus pandemic grows, gun sales are surging in many states
Yep no doubt the writing is on the walls. I already have the shells. Just need to get the gun.Zombies of course.
People are getting locked and loaded for what?
As the coronavirus pandemic grows, gun sales are surging in many states
So you linked one report in which police will not arrest people for NON-VIOLENT crimes. Petty theft. Shopflifting.
But I can see your concern in stolen automobiles. Some of those crimes involve violent confrontation. However, theft, burglary, prostitution and vandalism do not.
That's one city.
Do you have more evidence that governments are requiring that people have to take the law in their own hands?
Ergo not enforcing laws.
Those are still crimes. If my house is tagged I want more than a promissory note all based on the word of a criminal.... who tagged my house.
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The right of defense already exists with or without government action or inaction. My point was about protecting the individual and their property not vigilante justice. If cops are not going to show up for non-violent crimes that means an individual must protect their own homes more than normally.
Laws are still being enforced.
Not really as they handicap their own ability to enforce laws and punishment for criminal acts iva changing procedure. If my home is robbed but cops do not show because it wasn't violent they lose the chance to gather evidence before major contamination. They will not canvas the neighborhood looking for tips and other witnesses. Only taking a police report is not enforcing laws
I understand your concern but I believe you are overstating what cities are doing. What is happening is that law enforcement officers in those cities are responding to crimes in which another individual's well being is not at risk so they are not arresting them.
In other words, police are responding as normal....before this pandemic......but allowed to exercise discretion in whether or not what they respond to requires an arrest and detainment.
If you are being robbed in your own home......they respond as they would before this pandemic. There is no difference in such a situation.
And yes.....just citing people rather than detaining them is still enforcing the law.
The few cities that have enacted a measure of not arresting and detaining individuals for such crimes as prostituttion or other non violent crimes have not seen any increase in crime.
Do you get it now?
Laws are being enforced.
Cities are determining that those low level offenders do not need to be detained and imprisoned.
What we do not need at this time is misinformation being spread.
Coronavirus in Florida latest: inmates released, beach closing, free buses
“These defendants are the lowest public safety risk and were merely sitting in jail because they could not pay the amount to bond out,” Chronister said. “These defendants will still have to answer to the charges against them. It is my hope these individuals will make the most of this opportunity to be with their loved ones, help them prepare, comfort them and quarantine with them.”
Coronavirus leads some overseas prisons to release inmates; Rikers, other US prisons consider the same
“The only way we can possibly keep incarcerated people safe is to release them,” said Justine Olderman, executive director of the advocacy group Bronx Defenders. “The next best thing is to drastically reduce the number of people being held. Neither of those things are being done right now. As public defenders, what we’re actually seeing happen is the opposite, and it is terrifying.”
That article, while at the end had a complaint against releasing violent offenders, didn't state that anyone was doing such a thing.
Cities in the US move to lower inmate populations as coronavirus fears grow - CNN
"The low-level, nonviolent inmates have been released -- either by being placed on probation or by having their bond reduced to a manageable level -- or sentenced to the Ohio Department of Corrections prison."
Inmates are quarantined in jail
Public safety is a greater concern than prisoners safety. That is why they are in prison.
Non-violent does not mean not dangerous.
You didn't even read the quotes from your own links that I quoted for you.
And I told you citations are not law enforcement. So the quotes mean nothing without looking at how that would work in the justice system. All citations do is place faith in people that are already criminals while bypassing procedure.
Citations are actually actions by law enforcement.
Law enforcement officers issue citations regularly.
You have failed consistently on this thread.
Say something know.
For the imagined boogeymen of frightened, stupid people.People are getting locked and loaded for what?
As the coronavirus pandemic grows, gun sales are surging in many states