🚀 go-pugleaf

"Edgar S." <edgar_sim@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> "Fran Higham" <maura@mak.com.au> wrote in message
news:<baf4ln$s7gk4$1@ID-60053.news.dfncis.de>...
> _ snip _looking at the level of the
> > 'crimes' involved.
> >
> > The crimes of the "niggerz" are minor.
>
>
> Actually recent studies show that serious offenders also have long
> histories of breaking smaller, seemingly insignificant laws.
>
> In NYC, law enforcement instituted what they called the "broken
> window" theory. That is,recent studies show that serious offenders
> also have long histories of breaking smaller, seemingly insignificant
> laws.
>
> As the name indicates, these are seemingly 'unimportant' laws such as
> breaking windows, jumping subway turnstyles, vandalism and other
> misdemeanors.
>
> By cracking down on small things like this, law enforcement saw a
> SIGNIFICANT drop in felonies and other more serious crimes.

Thank you Edgar for the theory explaining why the person from Jasper Towing
Co committed a criminal act and why the cop became corrupt.  Obviously
Jasper Towing and the cop will have done these sorts of acts before and they
will do it again.  Wonder how long before either of them finally gets
charged.

But then, you will also know of the studies that indicate that the more
money and less colour one has then the less likely one is to go to goal.
Goal is reserved (universally) for those who are either poor or dusky of hue
or both.  In fact as a student of such tudies you would know that the
correlation of having both those things is high.  It is far better to rob
someone of $60 million and to ruin the lives of several thousand self funded
retirees than it is to be caught in mugging someone for $20.  The big thief
is less likely to get his just desserts than the small thief.

> > Illegal parking, uregistered vehicle
> > and no insurance.  Now I don't know about the US but in this country,
none
> > of those things would be considered to be a criminal act.  Socially
> > irresponsible and due to laziness or stupidity, but certainly NOT
crimes.
>
> In fact, young males regularly test laws to see it they really DO
> apply to them. Groups of young males reinforce each other's egos,
> making the group more likely to scoff the law.

Yes, but it would seem that reinforcing egos is not confined to the young or
the irresponsible.  In this case, the criminal acts of both the cop and the
Jasper Towing person proved not only that they believed they were beyond
obeying the law but also above acts of common good manners.  Decency in
personal behaviour is not something that should be cast off merely because
of annoyance at one observed act.

> Like a dog who urinates on your lawn...just to see if he can get away
> with it, young males will NOT play these power games if they're
> smacked down the first couple of times they try it.

Yes.  Pity the cop and the moron from Japer Towing weren't slapped down good
and hard before they committed crimes.