• Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    10 months ago

    He literally said “We cannot prosecute and arrest our way out of it.” and judging from the Dems stance on crime, thats what they think. It wasnt mispoken

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      10 months ago

      And it’s being portrayed as we should stop arresting and prosecuting criminals, instead of what was meant. Which I quoted, and was on the posted article.

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      10 months ago

      To which the meaning of that, given the context, is “being a police state, arresting every one at the drop of a hat will not solve things, preventative measures will always be more effective at reducing crime.”

      But that’s evidently too much context to understand, and strawmen args are more to speed for republicans.

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        10 months ago

        There’s a level between police state and giving probation to murderers. Surely you can see the issue here.

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          10 months ago

          What are you even talking about?

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              10 months ago

              What does that have to do with this?

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                10 months ago

                It’s a statistically irrelevant example.

                But if we’re talking about conservatives pulling a single data point out of context and running it up a “non-con bad” flag pole, then this example has accidental value.

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                  10 months ago

                  Right, I got that part. But what does it have to do with the DC AG, who wasn’t on that case?

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                  10 months ago

                  Sounds like they gave her probation because she was making an insanity plea, because she had psychosis. That, and she was seemingly remorseful. Therefore they gave her probation.

                  Are you saying insanity pleas are invalid?

                  Either way, this has nothing to do with the DC AG or what he said. You clearly have no argument for that conversation so you just moved to the next.

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      10 months ago

      Which is funny because you can. You out offenders in jail and they can’t offend for a period of time. It’s how we did it in the 90’s to great success