#robbery or burglary depending who you ask

[nefja]

Name the crimes your dog has commited. Expose them.

#nefja has commited 1st degree murder #(about 20 mice and 5 moles) #though at least one of the moles was definitely just a 2nd degree murder #assault #breaking and entering #stalking #disturbing the peace when she sees delivery vans #robbery or burglary depending who you ask #and tax evasion #she's actually never filed her taxes

[lawyerjust]

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Then, the “superego” which is the moral and ethical code that regulates the drives the id exhibits. So, the id represents the devil because of its reckless and disregarding nature. The id is not in touch with reality or logic, it simply compels a person to do what he or she wants, regardless of consequences or repercussions. He argued everyone has instinctual drives called the “id” that demand gratification. This body of knowledge was theorized largely from the mind of a famous psychologist, Sigmund Freud. A bad side and a good side, with the person in the middle to manage both. This theory is often depicted as a devil and angel on someone’s shoulder, suggesting three elements in actions. Psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive theory. But the question to ask is, are these instincts innate or learned and gained during the lifespan? Is it the nature/nurture phenomenon in actions? Three major psychological theories speak to this phenomenon. Washington Missick acknowledged that during his press conference on violent crimes. The Premier of the Turks & Caicos Islands, the Hon. Drug abusers commit crimes to pay for their substances and it is a social group that resorts to gun violence to resolve conflicts. above all, there is a close relationship between drug abuse and crime. Adverse Childhood Experiences, Negative Social Environment, Substance Abuse, etc. No doubt anyone in the criminology arena will lie out several factors that influence people to commit crimes, such as Biological Risk, which is we can’t choose the chemical makeup of our brain. One of the best ways to curb crimes is the knowledge of the stimulants that turn people into crimes. Solving crimes can be a long process that can be achieved gradually, depending on the demographics and cultural condition of a community. As outstanding as these moves can be, they are not sufficient to eradicate or reduce crimes. #TurksandCaicos, Septem– Solving crimes implies more than just capturing criminals, putting them in prison, take firearms away from them.

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Police also remind, that in light of the car theft and burglary spree in Provo, that you have a copy of your license plate and Remember, Police need your help in solving the armed robbery and imitation firearm cases, so please call Crime Stoppers anonymously at if you know anything. The woman, a 24 year old of Blue Hills is charged with wounding a 45 year old man of the Bight is arrested for burglary a 22 year old of Lower Bight is arrested for causing fear while using dangerous weapons and the 56 year old arrested, according to Police, breached his bail conditions. Three men and a woman were also arrested by Police. It is believed the bank account was hacked. The complaint was made at the Chalk Sound police station on Monday. The financial crimes unit is trying to determine who stole money from a personal bank account. The man did not steal anything and eventually just left the place in a blue car. It is unclear how officers know the gun was a phony, but there is now an investigation into an incident where a man is said to have entered a business on Leeward Highway carrying a long barreled gun, believed to be an imitation firearm. The man, who had a red and black shirt covering his face, did manage to escape with cash no one was hurt. The scene got pretty scary on Monday night when a lone gunman entered a bar on Norway Road in Kew Town demanded money and fired a single shot before fleeing on foot out of the rear door. Providenciales, – Police are investigating several serious incidents including an armed robbery, the case of a fake gun and missing money from a bank account.

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[uncloseted]

this is a dumb question but is it bad to call the police ever? like i know they are bad and their system is broken and you shouldn't call them for people doing harmless stuff like weed or being annoying but in a real emergency like a robbery or hostage situations or anything that needs escalation, is it bad? i know a lot of the time they are useless or harmful like in texas but if the situation wont get better by itself is it wrong?

So before I answer your question, I want to provide a little bit of context. Only about 4% of police activity is devoted to handling violent crime, and for some departments, that number is actually under 1%. It's also important to understand that already, a lot of crime isn't handled by police at all; in 2019, only 40.9% of violent crimes and 32.5% of household property crimes were reported to authorities.

Per the FBI, of that percentage, aggravated assaults accounted 62.4% of violent crimes reported to law enforcement, robbery comprised 29.4% of violent crimes, rape accounted for 6.9%, and murder accounted for 1.2% of estimated violent crimes.

For all of these categories, the perpetrators are usually known to the victim. As many as 90% of sexual assault victims know their attacker, and 65% of people who’ve been burglarized know the burglar personally. For homicides, 54.3% were killed by someone they knew (acquaintance, neighbor, friend, boyfriend, etc.); 24.8% of victims were slain by family members, and of female victims, 36.5% were killed by their romantic partner. 42.9% of homicide victims were murdered during arguments and felony circumstances (rape, robbery, burglary, etc.) accounted for 23.1% of murders.

My point with all of this is that situations where a random person is perpetrating a violent crime against someone are rare, and situations where the police show up to intervene and provide active assistance are even rarer. The majority of what the police in the US do is retroactive; they "bring criminals to justice". The police is the US actually don't have a duty to "serve and protect" the public, despite the fact that they claim it's their job to do so, and they don't often do much protecting. And I think intuitively we know this; there's a reason so many people carry pepper spray or an alarm with them at all times. I actually couldn't even find a statistic for how much of police activity is actively intervening in a violent situation.

So, all that said, when should you call the police? I think it depends on the situation, but in general, before calling the police I think it's important to ask yourself, "what am I hoping the police will do?" and "how likely is that outcome?" For example, with robbery, usually the hope is that the robbery will be stopped or that you'll get your stuff back. But the burglar will probably be gone by the time the police arrive, since their response time is typically an average of 8-11 minutes. And only 13% of robberies and motor vehicle thefts ever get solved, so it's unlikely that you'll get your stuff back. In general, I think it's probably not worth calling the police for property crimes.

For a hostage situation, it makes more sense to call the police because you're hoping that they'll be able to rescue you and hostage situations tend to be longer events. Police are kind of the only group who would be able to save a person in those situations, and the odds of them being able to do that are pretty good relative to all the other options.

For other violent crimes, I think it depends on what tools you have at your disposal. For example, if the person in question seems like their violence is as a result of a mental health crisis and your town/city has a mental health response team, it may be worth calling them instead of calling the police. If you think the police can get to you in time to intervene, it's probably worth calling them if you can't protect yourself, even though they may escalate the situation. I'm probably being a bad abolitionist by saying that, but given that we just don't have any other systems in place to help people protect themselves from violent crime, it seems like the only viable solution to me.

That said, I don't know if I think it's worth it to report violent crime after the fact. Generally, we have this idea that it's important to "bring criminals to justice" and to "prevent them from harming anyone else". But only about 45.6% of violent crimes are ever solved, and arresting criminals isn't preventing them from re-offending in the future- in fact, it may actually make them more likely to re-offend. I think what's most likely to help us reduce incidences of violent crime is to deal with the root causes of that crime instead of dealing with it after-the-fact.

[not-museing-around]

I love who I am with you || Demitra and Lorenzo

@misfittedmuses​

Depending on who you asked, some would say there are two kinds of true con’s on the world; the short game or what Demitra liked to call the fling, and the long con which Demitra liked to think of as falling love. Dating, moving in, marriage, kids, house with the picket fence. The full nine yards. The long game. There are benefits to both, but Demitra preferred going for gold. The short cons were generally burglaries, robberies. Quick, in and out. Long con’s could go on for years depending on the con. The pay out went from thousands to millions.  Being a con woman for hire, Demitra wouldn’t say she had much for loyalties either way, be it to her own band of thieves, to any form of government. It didn’t matter how powerful, how rich, how well protected. A perfect pair of legs, a pretty smile and some dazzling eyes could topple governments if she played her cards right. This employer specifically had quite the task in mind. Toppling a cartel. Leave it decimated. So broken that there isn’t a chance in the world of rebirth. And to Demitra? Well, that sounded like a hell of a lot of fun.

An art gallery seemed to get a lot of unexpected attention and though she hadn’t had a chance to snoop much, at her first walk through it seemed rather empty and heavily guarded. The woman with raven hair stilled in front of a painting to admire the brush work. Both to help keep her cover, but also because at the root of her passion, stealing and replicating art had been her profession long before this. So focused, she didn’t hear the man approach. “It’s kind of spectacular,  isn’t it?” The olive skinned beauty tilted her head to the side. “It’s composed beautifully.” 

[dandymeowth]

On the outskirts of the city, power lines sag and buzz, overloaded with electrons as the demand for air conditioning soars and the entire grid is pushed to the limit. In an Arizona heat wave, electricity is not a convenience, it is a tool for survival.

As the mercury rises, people die. The homeless cook to death on hot sidewalks. Older folks, their bodies unable to cope with the metabolic stress of extreme heat, suffer heart attacks and strokes. Hikers collapse from dehydration. As the climate warms, heat waves are growing longer, hotter, and more frequent. Since the 1960s, the average number of annual heat waves in 50 major American cities has tripled. They are also becoming more deadly. Last year, there were 181 heat-related deaths in Arizona’s Maricopa County, nearly three times the number from four years earlier. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2004 and 2017, about a quarter of all weather-related deaths were caused by excessive heat, far more than other natural disasters such as hurricanes and tornadoes.

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“What will the Hurricane Katrina of extreme heat look like?” he wonders aloud as we sit in a cafe near the ASU campus. Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, resulting in nearly 2,000 deaths and more than $100 billion in economic damage, demonstrated just how unprepared a city can be for extreme climate events.

“Hurricane Katrina caused a cascading failure of urban infrastructure in New Orleans that no one really predicted,” Chester explains. “Levees broke. People were stranded. Rescue operations failed. Extreme heat could lead to a similar cascading failure in Phoenix, exposing vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the region’s infrastructure that are difficult to foresee.”

In Chester’s view, a Phoenix heat catastrophe begins with a blackout.

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When the city goes dark, the order and convenience of modern life begin to fray. Without air conditioning, temperatures in homes and office buildings soar. (Ironically, new, energy-efficient buildings are tightly sealed, making them dangerous heat traps.) Traffic signals go out. Highways gridlock with people fleeing the city. Without power, gas pumps don’t work, leaving vehicles stranded with empty tanks. Water pipes crack from the heat, and water pumps fail, leaving people scrounging for fresh water. Hospitals overflow with people suffering from heat exhaustion and heatstroke. If there are wildfires, the air will become hazy and difficult to breathe. If a blackout during extreme heat continues for long, rioting, looting, and arson could begin.

And people will start dying. How many? “Katrina-like numbers,” Chester predicts. Which is to say, thousands. Chester describes all this coolly, as if a Phoenix heat apocalypse is a matter of fact, not hypothesis.

“How likely is this to happen?” I ask.

“It’s more a question of when,” Chester says, “not if.”

Extreme heat is the most direct, tangible, and deadly consequence of our hellbent consumption of fossil fuels. Rising carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere trap heat, which is fundamentally changing our climate system. “Think of the Earth’s temperature as a bell curve,” says Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann. “Climate change is shifting the bell curve toward the hotter end of the temperature scale, making extreme-heat events more likely.” As the temperature rises, ice sheets are melting, seas are rising, hurricanes are getting more intense, rainfall patterns are changing (witness the recent flooding in the Midwest). Drought and flooding inflict tremendous economic damage and create political chaos, but extreme heat is much more likely to kill you directly. The World Health Organization predicts heat stress linked to the climate crisis will cause 38,000 extra deaths a year worldwide between 2030 and 2050. A recent study published in Nature Climate Change found that by 2100, if emissions continue to grow, 74 percent of the world’s population will be exposed to heat waves hot enough to kill. “The more warming you have, the more heat waves you have,” says Michael Wehner, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “The more heat waves you have, the more people die. It’s a pretty simple equation.”

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Extreme heat is already transforming our world in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Disney executives recently voiced concern that rising temperatures will significantly reduce the number of visits to their parks. In Germany, officials were forced to put a speed limit on the autobahn because of fears the road would buckle from heat. The U.S. military has already incurred as much as $1 billion in costs during the past decade — from lost work, retraining, and medical care — due to the health impacts of heat. The warming of the planet “will affect the Department of Defense’s ability to defend the nation and poses immediate risks to U.S. national security,” a recent DOD report said. Forests and soils are drying out, contributing to explosive and unprecedented wildfires. Habitation zones for plants and animals are changing, forcing them to adapt to a warmer world or die. A U.N. report found that 1 million species are at risk of extinction in the coming decades. Another study by researchers at MIT suggests that rising temperatures and humidity may make much of South Asia, including parts of India and Pakistan, too hot for human existence by the end of the century. As scientist Peter Gleick, co-founder of the Pacific Institute in California, told me, “There is a shocking, unreported, fundamental change coming to the habitability of many parts of the planet, including the USA.”

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But the greatest risk to human health may be in areas that are already hot, where temperature increases will strain habitability. In the U.S., the fastest-warming cities are in the Southwest. Las Vegas, El Paso, Tucson, and Phoenix have warmed the most, each by at least 4.3°F since 1970. Globally, many of the hottest cities are in India. In May, a deadly heat wave sent temperatures above 120°F in the north. The desert city of Churu recorded a high of 123°F, nearly breaking India’s record of 123.8°F, set in 2016. There were warnings not to go outside after 11 a.m. Authorities poured water on roads to keep them from melting. A 33-year-old man was reportedly beaten to death in a fight over water. The preliminary death toll in India for this summer’s heat wave is already more than 200, and that number is likely to grow.

How hot will it get? That depends largely on how far and how fast carbon-dioxide levels rise, which depends on how much fossil fuel the world continues to burn. The Paris Climate Agreement (which President Trump pulled the U.S. out of) aims to limit the warming to 3.6°F (2°C). Given the current trajectory of carbon pollution, hitting that target is all but impossible. Unless nations of the world take dramatic action soon, we are headed for a warming of at least 5.4°F (3°C) by the end of the century, making the Earth roughly as warm as it was 3 million years ago during the Pliocene era, long before Homo sapiens came along. “Human beings have literally never lived on a planet as hot as it is today,” says Wehner. A 5.4°F-warmer world would be radically different from the one we know now, with cities swamped by rising seas and epic droughts turning rainforests into deserts. The increased heat alone would kill significant numbers of people. A recent report from the University of Bristol estimated that with 5.4°F of warming, about 5,800 people could die each year in New York due to the heat, 2,500 could die in Los Angeles, and 2,300 in Miami. “The relationship between heat and mortality is clear,” Eunice Lo, a climate scientist at the University of Bristol and the lead author of the report, tells me. “The warmer the world becomes, the more people die.”

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The psychological impacts of extreme heat are obvious to anyone who’s ever felt cranky on a hot day. But the impacts go beyond crankiness. When temperatures rise, suicide rates can go up at a pace similar to the impact of economic recessions. Some aspects of higher cognition are impaired. School test scores decline, with one study showing decreases across five measures of cognitive function, including reaction times and working memory.

The link between heat and violence is particularly intriguing. “There is growing evidence of a psychological mechanism that is impacted by heat, although we can’t yet say exactly what that is,” says Solomon Hsiang, a professor of public policy at Berkeley. Some scientists speculate that higher temperatures impact neurotransmitters in the brain, resulting in lower levels of serotonin, which has been shown to lead to aggressive behavior. So rising heat may literally alter the chemistry in our brains. One study showed that police officers were more likely to fire on intruders during training exercises when it was hot. Andrew Shaver, a professor of political science at the University of California, Merced, analyzed data about conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and found that attacks by insurgents involving RPGs and assault rifles increased with higher temperatures, while planned attacks did not. “During conflicts, higher temperatures seem to provoke more impulsive aggression,” Shaver says. One speculative paper projects that by 2099, due to rising heat, the U.S. could see an additional 22,000 murders, 180,000 rapes, 3.5 million assaults, and 3.76 million robberies, burglaries, and acts of larceny.

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A recent poll found that two-thirds of Arizonans accept that climate change is happening, but most elected officials in the state, including Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, are hardly climate activists. Arizona is one of the sunniest states in the nation, and yet only 6.5 percent of the state’s electricity comes from solar power. A statewide ballot initiative in 2018 to require 50 percent renewable power by 2030 was soundly defeated, in part because the parent company of Arizona Public Service, the big public utility in the state, spent more than $37 million on false and misleading arguments about how transitioning to renewable power would raise power bills and destroy the Arizona economy.

“We have a large number of elected officials who don’t believe in climate change, period,” says Stacey Champion, a longtime Phoenix energy and climate activist. “How do you get effective, data-driven policy if you have people pushing hard against it because they are batshit crazy, or they are afraid it will spook companies like Nike who want to come here?”

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Air conditioning is one of those paradoxical modern technologies that creates just as many problems as it solves. For one thing, it requires a lot of energy, most of which comes from fossil fuels. AC and fans already account for 10 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Globally, the number of air-conditioning units is expected to quadruple by 2050. Even accounting for modest growth in renewable power, the carbon emissions from all this new AC would result in a more than 0.9°F increase in global temperature by the year 2100.

Cheap air conditioning is like crack cocaine for modern civilization, keeping us addicted and putting off serious thinking about more creative (and less fossil-fuel-intensive) solutions. Air conditioning also creates a kind of extreme heat apartheid. If you’re rich, you have a big house with enough air conditioning to chill a martini. And if you are poor, like Leonor Juarez, a 46-year-old single mother whom I met on a recent July afternoon when the temperature was hovering around 115°F, you live in South Phoenix, where sidewalks are dirt and trees are few, and you hope you can squeeze enough money out of your paycheck to run the AC for a few hours on hot summer nights.

On hot days, Juarez’s small apartment feels like a cave. She has heavy purple curtains on the windows to block the sun. “I could not live here without air conditioning,” she tells me. Because she has poor credit, she doesn’t qualify for the usual monthly billing from Salt River Project, her utility. Instead, to pay for electricity and keep her AC running, SRP has given her a card reader that plugs into an outlet that she has to feed like a jukebox to keep the power on. Juarez turns on her AC only a few hours a day — still, her electric bill can run $500 a month during the summer, which is more than she pays for rent. To Juarez, who takes a bus five miles to a laundromat in the middle of the night because washing machines are discounted to 50 cents a load after 1 a.m., $500 is a tremendous amount of money.

She shows me the meter on the card reader: She has $49 worth of credit on it, enough for a few more days of power. And when that runs out? “I am in trouble,” she says bluntly. Juarez, who works as an in-home caretaker for the elderly, says she knows of several people who lived alone and died when they failed to pay their electric bills and tried to live without AC.

#climate change #global warming #classism #death #illness #heatstroke #heat stress #heat #environmentalism

[kokopayne-blog]

The future of the second Amendment in 2019

Dakota Mitchell

March 20, 2019

The debate on whether our Right to Bear Arms should be outlawed or should stay as stated in the constitution has become a really large controversy in the United States. Those who are in favor of removing our rights to own and purchase guns are hoping for greater peace in our country based on fear from recent shootings. Those who favor keeping the Second Amendment untouched, or slightly revised, what the ability to have guns to keep their peace of mind of being safe in their own homes or continuing hobbies such as hunting. There are many different reasons for both sides of the argument, both in favor of an outcome that makes them feel safe. However what is the best future for the United States?

Guns in America

Guns have have been a form of protection and way to hunt for food in our country for centuries, however recently in America we’ve come to a crucial debate on whether or not guns can protect us from people abusing the power of guns. With many recent shootings, majority done by people who were not registered  for the gun, or even legally purchased it we’ve questioned our safety of the buying and selling or firearms. Americans have been divided on the topic on how we should approach this situation with a safe and peaceful solution, however America's real ideas of gun safety have yet to be identified.

The second Amendment

In the second Amendment it states “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”. Written by our Four Founding Fathers, they clearly state that our right to bear arms should not ever be taken away, throughout any means in the future from that date this was written. Though written in 1791, The Bill of Rights was written as a guideline for the future America to be a safe and independent country. The Second Amendment this still has a large impact on how people feel about guns in their homes to protect their property and anyone they love on it. As said in the Constitution we have any right to protect ourselves when faced with danger on our property. Hence the word “property”, The second Amendment was written as a form of protection for American citizens, not to endanger others, simply to protect oneself and loved ones.

Life when the Constitution was written

When the constitution was written we had just been established as a free country, no longer under British rule. When we were a British colony, it was common for members of the British army to walk into your home and stay there without your permission. Intruders we’re allowed to waltz in without paying for stay, food, or even your approval for being in your home. People living in the colony were not safe in their own homes and became servants to British intruders. Along with this, if living on farm land, where properties were very spread apart with no technology to call for help if someone had come onto your property with bad intentions, you were on your own to protect your life and property. With limited resources of protection, and pasted trama of someone with a gun walking into their homes and inhabiting it for as long as they desire, the ability to own a gun for your own safety was without a doubt necessary.

The debate on owning a gun

In the United states we’ve viewed many shootings and witnessed lives lost at the hands of someone holding a gun. Though there have been many shootings throughout American history the one that changed the perspectives of Americans was the Stone Douglas High School shooting. In the Stone Douglas High school Shooting Nicolas Cruz claimed 17 victims. After this mass shooting students and people in the community took a stand the end the lives lost like the 17 students and faculties at Stone Douglas High School. This event sparked fear and an uneasiness in society, having a large impact on the democratic party, who started wanted to see changes in our community by limiting the buying and owning of guns. This tragedy resulted in a desire for change among many in the United States. In fear of their own safety the political debate on whether people feel safer in public knowing that guns are illegal or if they feel safer in their own homes knowing they can protect themselves and their family started.  

Satey in America today

Today there’s a lot more ways to get help when in danger other than your trusty rifle. We have quick access due to phones and Apples new feature that allows you to contact 911 without needed to speak on the phone. In most areas of the country we were within a quick walk across the street from a neighbors that could help us out when in an emergency. With the ability to call for an office to help when in need, Matt Halpin in the article Police Response Times in US cities states that the average response time is between 5-10 mins depending on the city.  Which in minor cases like a car robbery or suspicious activity isn’t bad, however when it comes down to in home abductions or a burglary gone wrong those 5-10 minutes are crucial and can threaten the safety of you or your loved ones.

Recently in Carlsbad, California 64 year Marjorie Gawitt was sleeping in her locked up home when 2 people broke into her house. With intentions of robbing the place, the robbery quickly went wrong when they realized she was home, the woman ended up stabbed to death. Her death was tragic, intruders broke into her safe space and ended her life, even if being awake during the intrusion by the time the police would have gotten there she still wouldn't have stood a chance. The fear of being in public during a shooting or someone coming into your home with no sympathy of your life are both terrifying and more than possible.

Americas thoughts

No matter what decision is made one side of the argument will not be pleased with the outcome. However when asking my social media following their opinions on guns, why and if need be what would be their ideal reform. The poles turned out to be 58% for the Second Amendment and 42% banning guns. However I then requested a reason (if the viewer felt comfortable enough to share), here were some of the most common/most unique answers:

Pro-gun

Anti-gun

Reform

“Taking away the second amendment will not stop the mass killings, shootings, ect”

“People having their own guns won't stop mass shootings it’ll just be more people shot”

“Guns don’t need to be illegal. Automatic guns are unnecessary and need restrictions”

“From a personal point of view, people will have guns whether its legal or not from an economic/ capitalist point of view there are entire industries built on guns being legal”

“Guns can fall into the wrong hands”

“I think we should have restrictions, not taking them away. Limiting who they go to. Also if you have a mental illness you shouldn’t be able to have access to them”

“Criminals already own guns illegally. Taking them from law-abiding citizens wont change it”

“Too many mass shootings and deaths at the hands of someone with a gun”

“People should have the right to buy guns as long as a proper background check is done!”

“It’s our free American right to bear arms. It is in our constitution and shouldn't even be questioned”

“Increase the regulation and penalties for illegal weapon sale (buying from craigslist)

“I believe taking away guns will make Americans more vulnerable. Has a gun show been shot up?”

“No matter what is illegal people will still get their guns illegally”

An outcome for the safety of America

The debate isn’t really on keeping or removing the second Amendment. The real issue is on how we want to reform the second amendment to be more suitable for the change in American life and the safety of our citizens. Based on my research with my social media, I’ve learned that the most desirable and comforting stance is to be able to feel safe in your home and out in public. The way to achieve that is to look at how open the ability to buy a gun is and how easily it is to get a gun from places such as: the blackmarket, ebay/ craigslist, 3d copiers. We need to limit the ways people can purchase guns to only gun stores where there should be extreme mental stability tests looking into that individuals family history as well, background checks, mandatory safes with purchase, a hold until you can receive the firearm, and limited bullets based off the reason for purchase. There's so many ways we can make America a safer place without having to take away someone's ability to feel safe in their own home and without having to take away the peace of mind of going to a public place.

[cookcone97]

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Stanford prison experiment article from the new yorker

On the morning of August 17, 1971, nine young men in the Palo Alto area received visits from local police officers. While their neighbors looked on, the men were arrested for violating Penal Codes 211 and 459 (armed robbery and burglary), searched, handcuffed, and led into the rear of a waiting police car. The cars took them to a Palo Alto police station, where the men were booked, fingerprinted, moved to a holding cell, and blindfolded. Finally, they were transported to the Stanford County Prison—also known as the Stanford University psychology department.

They were willing participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most controversial studies in the history of social psychology. (It’s the subject of a new film of the same name—a drama, not a documentary—starring Billy Crudup, of “Almost Famous,” as the lead investigator, Philip Zimbardo. It opens July 17th.) The study subjects, middle-class college students, had answered a questionnaire about their family backgrounds, physical- and mental-health histories, and social behavior, and had been deemed “normal”; a coin flip divided them into prisoners and guards. According to the lore that’s grown up around the experiment, the guards, with little to no instruction, began humiliating and psychologically abusing the prisoners within twenty-four hours of the study’s start. The prisoners, in turn, became submissive and depersonalized, taking the abuse and saying little in protest. The behavior of all involved was so extreme that the experiment, which was meant to last two weeks, was terminated after six days.

Less than a decade earlier, the Milgram obedience study had shown that ordinary people, if encouraged by an authority figure, were willing to shock their fellow-citizens with what they believed to be painful and potentially lethal levels of electricity. To many, the Stanford experiment underscored those findings, revealing the ease with which regular people, if given too much power, could transform into ruthless oppressors. Today, more than forty-five years later, many look to the study to make sense of events like the behavior of the guards at Abu Ghraib and America’s epidemic of police brutality. The Stanford Prison Experiment is cited as evidence of the atavistic impulses that lurk within us all; it’s said to show that, with a little nudge, we could all become tyrants.

And yet the lessons of the Stanford Prison Experiment aren’t so clear-cut. From the beginning, the study has been haunted by ambiguity. Even as it suggests that ordinary people harbor ugly potentialities, it also testifies to the way our circumstances shape our behavior. Was the study about our individual fallibility, or about broken institutions? Were its findings about prisons, specifically, or about life in general? What did the Stanford Prison Experiment really show?

The appeal of the experiment has a lot to do with its apparently simple setup: prisoners, guards, a fake jail, and some ground rules. But, in reality, the Stanford County Prison was a heavily manipulated environment, and the guards and prisoners acted in ways that were largely predetermined by how their roles were presented. To understand the meaning of the experiment, you have to understand that it wasn’t a blank slate; from the start, its goal was to evoke the experience of working and living in a brutal jail.

From the first, the guards’ priorities were set by Zimbardo. In a presentation to his Stanford colleagues shortly after the study’s conclusion, he described the procedures surrounding each prisoner’s arrival: each man was stripped and searched, “deloused,” and then given a uniform—a numbered gown, which Zimbardo called a “dress,” with a heavy bolted chain near the ankle, loose-fitting rubber sandals, and a cap made from a woman’s nylon stocking. “Real male prisoners don't wear dresses,” Zimbardo explained, “but real male prisoners, we have learned, do feel humiliated, do feel emasculated, and we thought we could produce the same effects very quickly by putting men in a dress without any underclothes.” The stocking caps were in lieu of shaving the prisoner’s heads. (The guards wore khaki uniforms and were given whistles, nightsticks, and mirrored sunglasses inspired by a prison guard in the movie “Cool Hand Luke.”)

Often, the guards operated without explicit, moment-to-moment instructions. But that didn’t mean that they were fully autonomous: Zimbardo himself took part in the experiment, playing the role of the prison superintendent. (The prison’s “warden” was also a researcher.) /Occasionally, disputes between prisoner and guards got out of hand, violating an explicit injunction against physical force that both prisoners and guards had read prior to enrolling in the study. When the “superintendent” and “warden” overlooked these incidents, the message to the guards was clear: all is well; keep going as you are. The participants knew that an audience was watching, and so a lack of feedback could be read as tacit approval. And the sense of being watched may also have encouraged them to perform. Dave Eshelman, one of the guards, recalled that he “consciously created” his guard persona. “I was in all kinds of drama productions in high school and college. It was something I was very familiar with: to take on another personality before you step out on the stage,” Eshelman said. In fact, he continued, “I was kind of running my own experiment in there, by saying, ‘How far can I push these things and how much abuse will these people take before they say, ‘Knock it off?’ ”

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Other, more subtle factors also shaped the experiment. It’s often said that the study participants were ordinary guys—and they were, indeed, determined to be “normal” and healthy by a battery of tests. But they were also a self-selected group who responded to a newspaper advertisement seeking volunteers for “a psychological study of prison life.” In a 2007 study, the psychologists Thomas Carnahan and Sam McFarland asked whether that wording itself may have stacked the odds. They recreated the original ad, and then ran a separate ad omitting the phrase “prison life.” They found that the people who responded to the two ads scored differently on a set of psychological tests. Those who thought that they would be participating in a prison study had significantly higher levels of aggressiveness, authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and social dominance, and they scored lower on measures of empathy and altruism.

Moreover, even within that self-selected sample, behavioral patterns were far from homogeneous. Much of the study’s cachet depends on the idea that the students responded en masse, giving up their individual identities to become submissive “prisoners” and tyrannical “guards.” But, in fact, the participants responded to the prison environment in all sorts of ways. While some guard shifts were especially cruel, others remained humane. Many of the supposedly passive prisoners rebelled. Richard Yacco, a prisoner, remembered “resisting what one guard was telling me to do and being willing to go into solitary confinement. As prisoners, we developed solidarity—we realized that we could join together and do passive resistance and cause some problems.”

What emerges from these details isn’t a perfectly lucid photograph but an ambiguous watercolor. While it’s true that some guards and prisoners behaved in alarming ways, it’s also the case that their environment was designed to encourage—and, in some cases, to require—those behaviors. Zimbardo himself has always been forthcoming about the details and the nature of his prison experiment: he thoroughly explained the setup in his original study and, in an early write-up, in which the experiment was described in broad strokes only, he pointed out that only “about a third of the guards became tyrannical in their arbitrary use of power.” (That’s about four people in total.) So how did the myth of the Stanford Prison Experiment—“Lord of the Flies” in the psych lab—come to diverge so profoundly from the reality?

In part, Zimbardo’s earliest statements about the experiment are to blame. In October, 1971, soon after the study’s completion—and before a single methodologically and analytically rigorous result had been published—Zimbardo was asked to testify before Congress about prison reform. His dramatic testimony, even as it clearly explained how the experiment worked, also allowed listeners to overlook how coercive the environment really was. He described the study as “an attempt to understand just what it means psychologically to be a prisoner or a prison guard.” But he also emphasized that the students in the study had been “the cream of the crop of this generation,” and said that the guards were given no specific instructions, and left free to make “up their own rules for maintaining law, order, and respect.” In explaining the results, he said that the “majority” of participants found themselves “no longer able to clearly differentiate between role-playing and self,” and that, in the six days the study took to unfold, “the experience of imprisonment undid, although temporarily, a lifetime of learning; human values were suspended, self-concepts were challenged, and the ugliest, most base, pathological side of human nature surfaced.” In describing another, related study and its implications for prison life, he said that “the mere act of assigning labels to people, calling some people prisoners and others guards, is sufficient to elicit pathological behavior.”

Zimbardo released video to NBC, which ran a feature on November 26, 1971. An article ran in the Times Magazine in April of 1973. In various ways, these accounts reiterated the claim that relatively small changes in circumstances could turn the best and brightest into monsters or depersonalized serfs. By the time Zimbardo published a formal paper about the study, in a 1973 issue of the International Journal of Crim__i__nology and Penology, a streamlined and unequivocal version of events had become entrenched in the national consciousness—so much so that a 1975 methodological critique fell largely on deaf ears.

Forty years later, Zimbardo still doesn’t shy away from popular attention. He served as a consultant on the new film, which follows his original study in detail, relying on direct transcripts from the experimental recordings and taking few dramatic liberties. In many ways, the film is critical of the study: Crudup plays Zimbardo as an overzealous researcher overstepping his bounds, trying to create a very specific outcome among the students he observes. The filmmakers even underscore the flimsiness of the experimental design, inserting characters who point out that Zimbardo is not a disinterested observer. They highlight a real-life conversation in which another psychologist asks Zimbardo whether he has an “independent variable.” In describing the study to his Stanford colleagues shortly after it ended, Zimbardo recalled that conversation: “To my surprise, I got really angry at him,” he said. “The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and I have to contend with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong whose only concern was for a ridiculous thing like an independent variable. The next thing he’d be asking me about was rehabilitation programs, the dummy! It wasn’t until sometime later that I realized how far into the experiment I was at that point.”

In a broad sense, the film reaffirms the opinion of John Mark, one of the guards, who, looking back, has said that Zimbardo’s interpretation of events was too shaped by his expectations to be meaningful: “He wanted to be able to say that college students, people from middle-class backgrounds ... will turn on each other just because they’re given a role and given power. Based on my experience, and what I saw and what I felt, I think that was a real stretch.”

If the Stanford Prison Experiment had simulated a less brutal environment, would the prisoners and guards have acted differently? In December, 2001, two psychologists, Stephen Reicher and Alexander Haslam, tried to find out. They worked with the documentaries unit of the BBC to partially recreate Zimbardo’s setup over the course of an eight-day experiment. Their guards also had uniforms, and were given latitude to dole out rewards and punishments; their prisoners were placed in three-person cells that followed the layout of the Stanford County Jail almost exactly. The main difference was that, in this prison, the preset expectations were gone. The guards were asked to come up with rules prior to the prisoners’ arrival, and were told only to make the prison run smoothly. (The BBC Prison Study, as it came to be called, differed from the Stanford experiment in a few other ways, including prisoner dress; for a while, moreover, the prisoners were told that they could become guards through good behavior, although, on the third day, that offer was revoked, and the roles were made permanent.)

Within the first few days of the BBC study, it became clear that the guards weren’t cohering as a group. “Several guards were wary of assuming and exerting their authority,” the researchers wrote. The prisoners, on the other hand, developed a collective identity. In a change from the Stanford study, the psychologists asked each participant to complete a daily survey that measured the degree to which he felt solidarity with his group; it showed that, as the guards grew further apart, the prisoners were growing closer together. On the fourth day, three cellmates decided to test their luck. At lunchtime, one threw his plate down and demanded better food, another asked to smoke, and the third asked for medical attention for a blister on his foot. The guards became disorganized; one even offered the smoker a cigarette. Reicher and Haslam reported that, after the prisoners returned to their cells, they “literally danced with joy.” (“That was fucking sweet,” one prisoner remarked.) Soon, more prisoners began to challenge the guards. They acted out during roll call, complained about the food, and talked back. At the end of the sixth day, the three insubordinate cellmates broke out and occupied the guards’ quarters. “At this point,” the researchers wrote, “the guards’ regime was seen by all to be unworkable and at an end.”

Taken together, these two studies don’t suggest that we all have an innate capacity for tyranny or victimhood. Instead, they suggest that our behavior largely conforms to our preconceived expectations. All else being equal, we act as we think we’re expected to act—especially if that expectation comes from above. Suggest, as the Stanford setup did, that we should behave in stereotypical tough-guard fashion, and we strive to fit that role. Tell us, as the BBC experimenters did, that we shouldn’t give up hope of social mobility, and we act accordingly.

This understanding might seem to diminish the power of the Stanford Prison Experiment. But, in fact, it sharpens and clarifies the study’s meaning. Last weekend brought the tragic news of Kalief Browder’s suicide. At sixteen, Browder was arrested, in the Bronx, for allegedly stealing a backpack; after the arrest, he was imprisoned at Rikers for three years without trial. (Ultimately, the case against him was dismissed.) While at Rikers, Browder was the object of violence from both prisoners and guards, some of which was captured on video. It’s possible to think that prisons are the way they are because human nature tends toward the pathological. But the Stanford Prison Experiment suggests that extreme behavior flows from extreme institutions. Prisons aren’t blank slates. Guards do indeed self-select into their jobs, as Zimbardo’s students self-selected into a study of prison life. Like Zimbardo’s men, they are bombarded with expectations from the first and shaped by preëxisting norms and patterns of behavior. The lesson of Stanford isn’t that any random human being is capable of descending into sadism and tyranny. It’s that certain institutions and environments demand those behaviors—and, perhaps, can change them.

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10 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Buy a DIY Home Alarm System

Everyone wants to save a few dollars these days and retailers are catering to the post-economic crash consumer with various deals, incentives, and product solutions to save them money. Every industry has been influenced by this shift in buying mentality. While not paying too much for a product is very important, getting a product that is solidly built and offers you a true solution to your problem rather than a temporary Band-Aid is equally imperative. The security alarm industry has seen an increase in the number of Do-it-yourself alarm installation products. It might be tempting to skimp on the real thing and try your hand at being a security installer, but here are 10 reasons why you shouldn't buy a DIY home alarm system.

1. Honestly, how handy are you? What was the last thing you worked on around your home and how did that go? If you're a handy guy or girl maybe installing a security product will work out okay for you, but for most people placing and installing home alarm equipment even when its wireless is a daunting task. Components need to be placed properly, devices need to talk to each other to work in harmony, and if you are going to have it monitored then signals need to be sent to the central station. That sounds frustrating. Most alarm companies offer installation for free up to $99 and give you the alarm for free.

2. What will you do when a part breaks on your alarm system now or in the future? Will you be able to contact the company that sold you the system? Do they offer technical support that you can understand since you will be the on-site technician fixing the problem? What if they are out of business? In the end you might end up calling a local company and paying a service fee.

3. DIY systems are online purchases. This is your home security. Some products should be bought in person from a local company who has a local interest in your wellbeing, their company's local reputation, and fall under your local jurisdictions if you need to file a lawsuit against them for faulty workmanship.

4. Did that alarm system come with alarm monitoring? Probably not, so what good is it? Do you really think that an alarm siren will keep today's burglars at bay? Trust me it won't. Burglars are crafty. They will test your siren for a monitoring response and work through the sirens loud bells to steal from you anyhow.

5. If there is no monitoring when will the police be responding to your break-in? Without any monitoring or notification of a burglary, you won't be able to report or take any action on your robbery until you come home. By then the bad is long gone.

6. Once installed and without monitoring are you even going to set the alarm system when you leave your home or at night while you're sleeping? Statics say no. Research has shown that homeowners who have active monitoring on their alarm systems are 40% more likely to actually set and use their alarm systems compared to homeowners without working alarm monitoring.

7. Did your DIY alarm system come with window decals and yard signs from a recognizable company? Career burglars are more daring to test alarm systems, but opportunist burglars will look yard signs and decals to know if they should skip a home and move onto an easier target. We live in a branded world. It's easy to tell the difference between a large national yard sign like Monitronics or ADT's and one that you bought at Wal-Mart.

8. How much did the DIY alarm system cost? Your initial out of pocket expenses will end up running around $100-$400 dollars depending on the product type and amount of products you purchase for DIY installation. Did you know there are several large national alarm companies that will provide you with a free alarm system and install it for you in exchange for paying a monitoring service fee monthly and paying this fee for a few years like you would with your cell phone? It might seem scary but if you own your home and plan on staying for a few years it's well worth the cost. Plus, you can move your system with you or sell it to the next home buyer.

9. What did your insurance company say when you told them you installed your own alarm system and wanted an insurance discount? They probably told you to send them an insurance certificate from your alarm company. These certificates are signed and verified by security alarm dealers to ensure that consumers don't take advantage of their insurance company. That is a 15-20% home insurance deduction you are missing out on.

10. What about all the advanced security options available to consumers today? DIY systems offer little in the way of monitoring or real security protection, let alone great modern features such as alarm text and email notifications, remote arm/ disarm features, keypads with weather alerts, and the ability to control your homes energy and lighting controls from anywhere in the world. Today's alarm system does a lot more than keep the bad guys out.

Smart shoppers know that getting a deal comes with some research and conviction to ask for a deal with the company you've decided on. Instead of taking the DIY route, research several local alarm companies than decide on 1 or 2 that you would like to ask for a deal from. Most dealers will work with you on the money aspect to earn your business. So instead of spending your Sunday fighting to get an alarm system installed then being disappointed when you've paid money for a system that is useless without monitoring, how about you let the pros do it for you then take a trip with the family where you can practice arming and disarming your system on your smart phone.

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XXXTentacion and a peek into the Cult Effect in Hip Hop

It’s certainly interesting - at least in some sense - to see people go through infinite sets of mental gymnastics to try and justify the actions of their idols, elevating them to far reaching idealistic pedestals where they can do no wrong. It’s an easily observable element of human psychology, perhaps tying in with the seemingly instinctual desire contained in many people to never admit that there’s a small, small chance that their opinion on something could be incorrect. Sure, it may be funny from a distance, but it’s absolutely beyond frustrating to put up with when it’s actually in your proximity. When two parties face each other and both are thoroughly convinced being incorrect makes them inferior, how can one party ever let up their ideas? Even when people get backed into a corner, it really can be quite fascinating  to see how they try and continue, either by what topics they try and switch to or with what fallacies they pull out to try and desperately justify their stance on an issue. Funny enough however, while certainly related in the same sense, I’m not even specifically talking about politics here. While I’d agree with anyone that hyperpartisanship is a major issue in the political climate - especially at the moment - I’m actually talking about a common occurrence in the hip hop community.

If you aren’t familiar with XXXTentacion, he’s currently quite the polarizing figure in Hip Hop. I won’t judge his music - at least not here - but if anything else, it’s very unique, combining lofi punk elements with traditional hip hop. He’s gathered something akin to a cult following, a brigade of dedicated listeners that one might compare to a displaced metal fan - popular anime avatars, names filled with symbols reminiscent of early 2000s myspace pages, and a passion for throwing threats at those who dare to criticize him. I don’t think the community he’s created around him - much like other rappers, who are essentially expected to be walking cults of personality at this point - it’s just all part of his aesthetic. XXX is an anomaly; with his wide range of music encompassing everything from depressed crooning to borderline screamo to his half blonde dreadlocks appearance,he’s already carved out a niche for himself. Perhaps in the modern underground hip hop landscape - where emo and punk are merging in aesthetic and partially in sounds, and acts like $uicideboy$ and Lil Peep are expanding the passionate fanbases brought in by influential underground acts from Raider Klan fame, XXX isn’t even that far removed or unique. But never say that - or even imply that - in front of many of his fans. Disregarding that for a second, it’s important to take his origin into account here; a large part of what’s helped XXX rise to fame, besides mainstream fringe breakouts like Look at Me, is just how much controversy he’s managed to accrue in such a short amount of time. And yet whenever controversy occurs - whether it be beating up a gay guy in prison for allegedly “looking at him funny when he told him not to” to being accused (unconfirmed) of beating his girlfriend to spending time in jail for armed robbery, resisting arrest, and other crimes - there will always, always be people who come to his defense to justify his actions. 

r/hiphopheads, a large hip hop community on reddit, thrives on lots of these types of discussions. Whenever a headline is posted about a rapper, whether popular or underground, I always love regardless to go into the comments and see what people have to say. As expected, most peoples’ views on the situation are based off the rapper themselves and not off the action done. I’m very much into hip hop, probably unhealthily so, but if there’s one thing I’ve personally learned is that there’s many, many times where you just have to separate the artist from the art. Anthony Fantano, a popular music critic, brought this up a long time ago in a video entitled  “Can Bad People Make Good Music?”, and the point is more relevant than ever - it’s almost akin to asking “Can a bad politician pass good legislation?”. A lot of people would say no, because overlap in belief is seen as sacrilegious to many. And you know what? This more or less applies to music as well. As I mentioned with XXX, many peoples’ opinions of him are solely derived from their view of him. It works two ways; people who dislike him as a person view his music differently, and people who like music view him as a person differently. Now, this is a bit of a generalization of course, but obviously it isn’t completely all encompassing. Going into threads about him beating his ex-girlfriend, you’ll see comments which indicate that perhaps she did something to him which provoked his actions. Now, this isn’t an excuse - at all - but I’ll hand it to them that, fair enough, this is more or less somewhat better of a response to an alleged act than some of the other comments which literally state that she objectively deserved it. You can say that this is unfair because the incident was alleged, but what about his other actions? Grand theft, burglary, armed robbery? Fans will use the same logic to justify his actions. 

Of course this isn’t limited to just XXX. A recent controversy of Young Thug allegedly hitting a female rapper spawned an argument in which many people were saying it wasn’t an issue. While there are certainly cultural implications of this - especially due to the imbued imagery that tends to surround women in hip hop - Young Thug, much like XXX, is often by fans dedicated to justifying his antics. He’s no stranger to controversy, and it definitely shows in his image as a rapper. But even beyond these two rappers, how many hip hop fans have you seen wearing clothing that says or slinging around phrases on social media like “#FREE(RAPPER)”. Whether it be Kodak, Gucci, XXX, or whoever else, fans are more confident in their idol than they are in their actual actions. While there’s certainly an argument that sure, the trial was unfair, or the imprisonment or punishment was the result of some systematic oppression or unfair judgement, is this always the case? Well, just like everyone else, it depends who you talk to. I don’t think many people would argue that their idol is necessarily above the law, but rather than they were unfairly treated. This curved logic allows for many fans to bend the narrative surrounding their idol to something more acceptable. How many people want to walk around proudly saying they’re a dedicated fan of a murderer for example? I don’t know many people who are proud to say they’re Big Lurch fans. It’s uncomfortable to do, and it relates back to the idea of separating an artist from their art. It’s hard to do, so it’s better for people to create an idealized image of their artist to spread. The issue is, the people who they argue with don’t see things the same way they do - the arguing ends up being one-sided, and leads into what can be described as desperate attempts to justify otherwise unacceptable actions. There’s cultural factors to all of this for sure, and certain backgrounds will certainly make you more disposed to viewing strings of actions in certain ways, But when do those actions cross the line from disposition to desperation? When do cultural differences in media get overshadowed by image-furthering marketers and relentless hypebeasts? I think really it ends up, just like everything else, in the eye of the beholder.

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Criminal Charges

A criminal charge is a formal accusation asserting that someone has committed a crime.  Criminal charges are made formal by a government authority.  To start a criminal case in court you need a charging document, which can take the form of a complaint, information, an indictment, a police citation, and / or a traffic ticket.  Most often, the charging document is a police arrest report and that report is given to the prosecutor who decides what (if any) charges to file.  Prosecutors are able to file charges on all of the crimes for which the police arrested the suspect for, or they can file charges either more or less severe than the charges cited by police.

The next step is a preliminary hearing, which can take place more than a month after the initial arrest of the suspect.  At the court hearing, the judge will read aloud the criminal charges against the person (referred to as the “defendant”).  The judge will ask the defendant to enter a plea of either “not guilty,” “no contest,” or “guilty.”  Even if a defendant is indeed guilty, they can enter a plea of not guilty if they feel there is not enough evidence to prove their guilt.  Other things that are taken into consideration at the time of sentencing include the defendant’s criminal history, evaluations for mental health or chemical dependency (if they were done prior to the sentencing hearing), and anything that a victim or victim’s family say when given their opportunity to speak.

Criminal Charges Punishments

The punishments for criminal charges can vary greatly, from minor criminal charges (misdemeanors) to more serious criminal charges (felonies).  The process to determine the punishment for a criminal charge that is a felony is much lengthier than the process to determine the punishment for a misdemeanor.

Rights When Faced with Criminal Charges

Anyone facing criminal charges in the United States have basic Constitutional rights, known as the Miranda Rights.  The Miranda Rights are read aloud to anyone facing criminal charges and include habeas corpus, the right to remain silent, and the right to an attorney.

Criminal Charges Prosecution

An individual facing a criminal charge (or charges) will always be prosecuted in the state in which they committed the criminal charge.  Minor violations, such as parking tickets or speeding tickets, are not prosecuted too harshly, however misdemeanors and felonies are considered serious charges and range from shoplifting to murder.  It is truly best to speak with a criminal defense lawyer about your case to ensure that your rights are protected.

Common Criminal Charges

Aggravated Assault / Battery

Aiding & Abetting / Accessory

Arson

Assault / Battery

Bribery

Burglary

Child Abandonment

Child Abuse

Computer Crime

Conspiracy

Credit Card Fraud / Debit Card Fraud

Criminal Contempt of Court

Cyber Bullying

Disorderly Conduct

Disturbing the Peace

Domestic Violence

Drug Manufacturing and Cultivation

Drug Possession

Drug Trafficking / Distribution

Driving Under the Influence (DUI) / Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)

Embezzlement

Extortion

Forgery

Harassment

Hate Crimes

Homicide

Indecent Exposure

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Perjury

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Shoplifting

Solicitation

Stalking

Tax Evasion / Tax Fraud

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Theft / Larceny

Vandalism

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Do I Know You?

Pairing: Peter x Reader Words: 1,976 A/N: First fic of the new year! Anyways, here’s that Spoods fic I was dying to write and thanks to the anon who requested it! Ily and I may be opening up requests again soon depending on how busy I am with the pups, but thanks to everyone for being so wonderful to me these past few weeks!

Your phone buzzed in your pocket and you rushed to silence it. The screen flashed and you saw that it was an alert from your local news of a burglary in process. It warned people in the area to stay away because the suspects were armed and they had hostages, but you had other plans. Now it was just a matter of getting out of class so you could stop them. You grabbed your bag and marched to the front until you landed at your teacher’s desk.

“Mr. White, I think I need to see the nurse.” You said, putting on your best sick face and grabbing your stomach.

“You look fine to me.” He replied tersely, not even looking up from his ungraded papers.

“It’s my stomach-or more accurately-my uterus, sir.” That finally caught his attention. He looked up at you, slightly panicked before he let out a resigned sigh and wrote out a hall pass for you.

“Get it together, Miss Y/N, and come back to class if you can.” Your teacher gave you a thin lipped smile before returning to work.

“Will do.” You said, cheerily snatching the note from his hand with absolutely no intention of coming back. The halls were empty seeing as everyone was in class so you booked it out the front door.

According to the alert, the burglary was still in process and about six blocks east. That gave you just enough time to change in the alley like the professional you were and go stop the bad guy before your last class of the day. From what you could tell, it was a textbook bank robbery so it should be a piece of cake. Your powers were by no means extraordinary and definitely hadn’t caught the attention of The Avengers, but you almost preferred it that way. Besides, it’s not like you asked to be struck by lightning in the middle of doing research measuring the wattage in the air during a thunderstorm but, hey what can you do?

Turns out you can control electricity and anything that’s powered by it. Your family hasn’t had to pay an electricity bill in months and you were actually helping people. That’s all you wanted to do since you saw the extent of your power and no one was going to get in your way.

You powered through the streets, the sounds of sirens filling the air. A crowd had formed around the area as police did their best to barricade them off. You slipped behind the building through a back alley and short circuited the alarm system on one of the windows. Once inside, you snuck around until you found the source of the commotion. A group of about five men were patrolling their hostages as they sat huddled in the corner. They had AK-51’s and other automatic guns but it was nothing you couldn’t handle.

Right as you were about to step in and start taking down the bad guys you saw something white hit one of the culprits and ripped the gun out of his hands. Immediately you knew who it was. The same punk who took down your perpetrator when you were hot on his tail last Wednesday. They called him “Spider-Man” but you just called him a major pain in your ass. He was also going to get shot in the back of the head because he didn’t see the sixth man hiding behind a pillar. You stepped out to reveal yourself just in time to send a bolt of lightning at the man with the gun.

The would be murderer shook violently before collapsing on the ground. Whatever you did to him wasn’t enough to kill him so he would come around just in time to get arrested. Everyone else turned to look at you, in shock over what just happened. Your combat boots squeaked on the marble floor and you rolled up the sleeves on your leather jacket revealing burn marks from failed experiments on your arms. The only hint at your powers was the right red lightning bolt down the front of your black tank top. It was pretty unofficial and you looked like a scrappy kid who picks fights on the weekend, but that was your style.

“Thanks for teeing me up, Spidey, but I can take it from here.” You said, glaring at him through your dark sunglasses. They were all you had in terms of a mask for the time being.

“Actually I’ve got it handled, thanks anyways.” He offhandedly and you arched an eyebrow at him, your glare unwavering.

“Oh the same way you handled the guy who was about to paint the wall with your brains?” You retorted, tilting your head inquisitively. “Look kid, I-”

“Did you just call me ‘kid’? You look younger than I am.” He gestured at your small frame and it just pissed you off more.

“Whatever, bottom line is you would’ve been dead two minutes ago had it not been for me so you can thank me by getting on your merry way out the door.” You were getting mad and literal sparks were erupting around you. If he could see your eyes then he would’ve seen the menacing glow behind them.

“I’m already here so what’s the point in leaving so…” He was smirking at you underneath that mask and all you wanted to do was blow it off his smug little face.

“The point is-” You were about to rip him a new one because you had just about enough when he shot you with that silly string he uses to stop people. It latched onto the front of your shirt and he jerked you forward, flying towards him as the sound of gunshots filled the air. He caught you with a hand around your waist, the sudden movement making you short of breath.

“We’re even now get down!” He said, hand still pressing your body against his. You pushed him away and begrudgingly did as he instructed.

You hit the ground and watched him web up two more guys as they charged at him. A third was coming for him from behind so you lunged at him and emitted shockwaves through your skin so every point of contact was met with volts of energy surging through his body. Hostages were screaming as more guns were fired and you had less than seconds to react. You saw the last two gunmen taking aim at your new partner, but he disarmed one before they could pull the trigger. You sent a shockwave at both of them, knocking them on their asses giving Spider-Man the opportunity to tie them up. He rounded up the last of them and you turned your attention to the frightened hostages.

“I’ll get you guys out here, just follow me!” You led them back through the front entrance where a crowd of people were waiting with baited breath. “They’re okay! Everyone’s okay, but he’s still in there!”

EMT’s rushed to get your hostages medical attention while the police stormed the bank. You ran back in just in time to see Spider-Man show them how a kid did their job for them. He was breaking down the events of the last few minutes and you took this as an opportunity to sneak out the way you came. You thought no one followed you out until the bane of your existence slung more of his webbing around your wrist. Out of pure instinct you grabbed it and sent a powerful shock back through the end of it.

“Son of a-!” Spider-Man yelped as he let go of his webbing.

“I’m so sorry!” You said, realizing what you you’d done, “You snuck up on me and I panicked.”

“Ow-no you’re right I just wanted to say thanks before you left.” He rubbed the back of his neck nervously, “You’re pretty good at what you do.”

“I guess you’re not too bad either even if the suit is a little much.” You said, playfully taking a jab at his hyped up morphsuit.

“Oh this old thing?” He struck a pose and you couldn’t help but laugh with him. You got the nagging sensation that you knew him, that you had laughed together before. He must have felt the same way because he asked, “Hey, do I know you from somewhere?” You tried to stutter out an excuse when the alarm on your phone went off and you realized you only had minutes to get back to school.

“Shit-I have to go.” You said, eyes wide under your sunglasses. His body tensed up as you immediately began to panic. Thankfully he didn’t try to stop you again and you sprinted back the way you came, leaving him to gaze after your retreating form.

You stopped in the alley where you stashed your clothes and changed in record time. Your leather jacket was poking out of your bag as you ran through the front doors of your school. The bell rang to mark the end of fifth period so it gave you just enough time to get to World History without being late. You slowed your breathing and forced a steady pace as you walled to class when you saw your crush walking in your direction. He had the same class as you so you shouldn’t have been surprised in the least but your heart still skipped a beat when you saw him approach.

“Hey, Peter!” You said a little too excited and you mentally slapped yourself.

“What’s up, Y/N, I heard you went to the nurse earlier, I hope you’re okay?”He said, concern filling his beautiful eyes.

“Huh-oh yeah I’m fine just a stomach bug or something, but I’m feeling better now. Do you think I could get your notes from last period though? Mrs. Warren said there was gonna be a quiz tomorrow and the last thing I need right now is an F. ”

“You don’t want my notes, trust me you’re better off taking the quiz blind, but I can ask Ned for his. They’re much more reliable.” He flashed his lopsided grin at you as he rubbed the back of his neck and your insides melted. His eyes fluttered downwards bashfully and they landed on your bare wrists. Something must have caught his eye because he furrowed his brow like he was getting a headache from thinking too hard. “Hey, I never noticed those scars on your arms. Have they always been there?”

You self consciously pulled the sleeves of your sweater down before answering. “They’re pretty new actually, just some science projects gone wrong.”

“I feel like I’ve seen them before-” You were literally saved by the bell as it went off, signalling to everyone that the last class of the day was about to begin.

“I’ll see you after class, ‘kay?” You asked eagerly to which he responded with a coy “Promise?” and you would’ve lit up the whole school if you were alright with revealing your super powers to the entire student body.

You settled with a tiny squeal of delight and a smile so bright it hurt your face after a second. The face hurting smile turned into a content grin that remained all throughout class. Despite having successfully stopped a bank robbery earlier that afternoon, the highlight of your day was Peter asking about you and your scars. He had been your friend for years at this point and something about him felt so familiar, almost too familiar. During class, you had unconsciously rolled your sleeves up again and you caught Peter staring at them from his seat. He saw you watching him and instantly looked away. You didn’t know what his fascination was with your burn marks, but something inside told you to keep it yourself, at least for now.

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Valuable Travel Tips for First-Time Travelers

There's such a great deal of world to see and we're so fed for you that you're going to get out there and investigate the globe.

Regardless of the amount you've gone in your nation of origin there's something similarly exciting and startling about taking your first outing abroad. I've been globetrotting full-time for about 4 years to very nearly 60 nations - and I've taken in some things en route, including some top travel tips for first-time travelers.

Going some place totally new, unique, and remote is perpetually energizing however can likewise be somewhat unnerving and confounding. Be that as it may, it doesn't need to be! Pursue these straightforward tips to get your coordinations so as to guarantee smooth cruising.

Get Your International ID Well Ahead of time

The most critical of all tips for first-time global explorers? Stay away from superfluous worry by applying for an international ID a long time before your normal flight. Try not to book a flight or make any game plans that can't be changed until you have that little book that opens entryways around the world in your grasp. Some worldwide flights necessitate that you enter your visa number when booking or amid online registration, so it's ideal to simply have it first before you begin booking anything..

Starting at 2019, the application expense for U.S. identifications is $145 for grown-ups and $115 in case you're under 16. On the off chance that you've effectively felt free to begin booking and paying for your outing you can pay an additional charge for your international ID on the off chance that you need it in a jiffy (the official term is "sped up"). More often than not, you can get a facilitated visa inside about fourteen days of your application.

When your visa arrives, make paper and advanced duplicates of the ID page. Offer one to your folks to be careful and keep another in your wallet. Snap a picture on your telephone and keep a quality advanced duplicate on your Google Docs. When you get your visa stamp, snap a photo of that too.

You'll require your visa more frequently than you may might suspect - not simply amid flights! Numerous lodgings are required to take a sweep of your international ID distinguishing proof page. Try not to be frightened by this current, it's absolutely typical. Some may even hold your international ID amid your stay as guarantee to guarantee you pay for your settlement yet in addition to guard it from burglary. (This isn't as basic as it used to be before the times of internet booking, yet don't be astounded in the event that it occurs in some remote.)

While most nations actually do necessitate that outsiders have their identification on them consistently this isn't the most fitting activity as there are pickpockets and sack snatchers everywhere throughout the globe. This is the place that paper duplicate you made proves to be useful. Should you have any experiences with outside law implementation it's entirely standard to demonstrate to them the image of your international ID and visa on your telephone and afterward clarify that the physical duplicate is back at your inn - simply offer to go recover it on the off chance that they have to see it.

Never keep your international ID in a simple to-get to take on your pack. The most perfect spot for your international ID to be is in a safe at a lodging or in your storage at an inn.

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Choosing Where to Go for Your First Universal Trek

Maybe you've been envisioning for quite a while about observing elephants in Thailand or visiting the pyramids in Egypt. Possibly you don't have the foggiest idea where precisely, however you simply realize you have to go. In case you're overpowered by all the fantastic spots you can see since you have a visa then it might be difficult to pick which goal to visit on your first global excursion.

Here are some vital things to ask yourself as you limited down a strict universe of decisions:

Would you like to remain nearby to your nation of origin or go far away? On your first outing, it's alright to begin some place close and head further away from home as you get increasingly happy with being a worldwide globetrotting explorer.

Do you talk an unknown dialect? Or then again, would you say you are happy with making a trip to a spot where you don't talk the language? France was the main nation I visited that wasn't an English or Spanish talking nation and I was totally overpowered by not having the capacity to impart.

Is it true that you are anxious to make new companions and associating with local people? Assuming this is the case, you might need to think about booking a guided visit - that is an incredible method to interface with individual voyagers and numerous visits enable you chances to meet nearby aides as well.

What are you anticipating the most? Is it accurate to say that you are drawn towards excellent structures and design, eating flavorful or irregular nourishments, unwinding on a shoreline, ascending a mountain, or would you simply like to party? It may write down a brisk rundown so as to make sense of 1-2 things that are the most engaging part of your first-time abroad.

What is your solace level about making a trip to nations that have a culture and way of life that contrasts incredibly from yours? Will you feel awkward around neediness, contamination, and insane traffic? There's no disgrace in first visiting nations where you feel safe.

When you've considered these inquiries, ideally, you can limit your decisions to a couple of nations, contingent upon how much time you've assigned for your first worldwide outing. In the event that you're as yet uncertain, a great suggestion for first-time travelers is to visit Western Europe or the Assembled Kingdom. The vast majority communicate in English (regardless of whether it's not the national language), there are great transportation alternatives (transports, trains, and planes), and heaps of one of a kind societies to encounter. Australia and New Zealand are similarly simple, yet marginally progressively bold goals as they require whole deal flights and more vital arranging as they're very extensive and offer such a significant number of energizing activities.

On the off chance that you truly need to go some place that is totally unique in relation to the States, consider an outing to certain areas that are recognizable and used to voyagers, for example, Costa Rica or Thailand. I'm constantly astonished when I meet youthful voyagers who are abroad without precedent for Morocco or India-two of my most loved nations - however puts I couldn't have taken care of when I was an accomplished explorer at 19.

Verify whether You Need a Visa

As you book your trek, ensure you verify whether you'll require a visa to travel. A visa is an archive issued by the nation or nations you're visiting, which gifts you authorization to go there for a specific number of days.

For the majority of Europe, the U.K., and numerous nations in Asia and Latin America, U.S. identification holders can go without a visa or get one on landing. In any case, in the event that you do require a visa and you appear for your trip without it you won't be permitted to load onto the plane which will be a noteworthy bummer and loss of your well deserved cash.

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Ensure You Can Access Your Cash Abroad

Gone are the days when you have to convey money or explorers checks (what are those?!) to travel abroad. Presently, because of the web, it's a lot simpler to oversee and get to cash while voyaging everywhere throughout the world.

Check in with your bank to check whether you have to set up a movement alert while you're abroad so your bank knows when and where you're voyaging. You can likewise ask about worldwide charges, and whether they have accomplice banks in the goal that will enable you to get a good deal on exorbitant "outside exchange" ATM expenses. Or on the other hand, you can maintain a strategic distance from the majority of that by opening a free financial records with Charles Schwab or Partner. These are two banks that have no outside exchange expenses and repay ATM charges - even while voyaging!

In spite of the fact that your charge card will most likely work wherever on this first excursion, it's imperative to have a decent back-up plan. Attempt to take at any rate $100, a plastic, and a Visa with you on your first worldwide excursion. Continuously abandon one card in your lodging on the off chance that your wallet gets stolen - this has transpired too often. In the event that your wallet gets stolen it's not the apocalypse since despite everything you'll have another approach to get to cash!

Remain Safe with these Worldwide Travel Wellbeing Tips

Your first global outing may appear to be frightening, yet it's quite often scarier in your psyche than it will ever be once you're voyaging.

Typically, the most you'll need to stress over is pickpockets and frivolous robbery. To abstain from turning into an injured individual, dependably watch out for your things and hold your pack tight. A cross body sack or fanny pack may not be the most in vogue but rather they're by a long shot the best method to dissuade pickpockets. Never convey a knapsack on only one shoulder or leave your sack on the ground or on the back of a seat. In case you're truly concerned, cash belts and burglary verification wallets are likewise great alternatives.

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Set aside extra cash by Looking at Transportation and Settlement Choices

Most global excursions will expect you to fly there, however for getting around your goal, consider different choices, for example, transports or prepares. Rio2Rome is an incredible instrument for looking for all the course alternatives from indicate A point B and making sense of which method of transportation will be fastest and least expensive.

Transport rides are typically the most cost-effective and eco-accommodating method of transportation and furthermore offer you the opportunity to take!

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"When 'Violent Offenders' Commit Nonviolent Crimes"

The title of this post is the title of this interesting recent Marshall Project piece. I recommend it in full, and here are excerpts:

[M]any of the “violent offenders” in U.S. prisons are there for crimes that not everyone would classify as violent.  According to a Marshall Project survey of all 50 states’ laws, you can get charged and convicted as a violent criminal in more than a dozen states if you enter a dwelling that’s not yours.  That might seem like a property crime, but it’s often deemed a violent one: burglary.  Similarly, purse snatching is considered a “violent” offense in several states. So are the manufacture of methamphetamines and theft of drugs.

Our survey of statutes yielded even more surprising examples.  In Kentucky, committing “Possession of Anhydrous Ammonia in an Unapproved Container with Intent to Manufacture Methamphetamine” a second time puts you in a “violent” category under the law — and you’ll face 20 to 50 years in prison. In Minnesota, aiding an attempted suicide is listed as violent, as is marijuana possession (depending on the amount).  In North Carolina, trafficking a stolen identity and selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school or playground are both violent crimes, according to the state’s “habitual violent offender” statute.  And in New York, it’s deemed a violent felony to simply possess a loaded gun illegally — with “loaded” defined as simply being in possession of bullets....

Those classifications aren’t just semantics: When a crime is described as “violent,” there are all kinds of consequences for incarcerated people. Anyone convicted of such offenses can face longer mandatory-minimum sentences, the triggering of “three-strikes-you’re-out” and “habitual violent offender” penalties and, in immigration cases, are at risk of deportation.

They can also be disenfranchised at the ballot box: Some states let certain nonviolent ex-prisoners vote, but not violent ones. And they are often placed in different housing behind bars, according to their supposed violence level.

Rethinking whether these kinds of crimes should be considered violent would change the conversation about what must be done to cut the incarcerated population, some advocates of prison reform say.  Take two states — Minnesota and North Carolina — that classify several questionable crimes as violent.

In Minnesota, approximately 3,092 prisoners out of a total imprisoned population of 9,849 were locked up for “violent” crimes that, on second glance, might not seem all that violent, according to a Marshall Project analysis of July 2018 data. These include burglary—entering a building without consent and with the intent to commit a crime — and drug crimes.  In North Carolina, a significant portion of those behind bars — 7,532 of about 35,700 total prisoners — were incarcerated as of 2018 for crimes deemed violent according to the state’s habitual violent offender law.

These include “habitual breaking and entering,” trafficking in stolen identities, embezzlement of large amounts of money and obtaining property by false pretenses, as well as drug dealing.  If those convicted of such offenses ever get re-arrested, they could, at the bail hearing, be considered to have a violent criminal history — and therefore be sent to jail instead of getting released on bond or supervision.  If they are later released but fail a urine test, they could be returned to prison as a violent offender, even though testing positive for drugs is not a violent crime....

Phillip Kopp, an assistant professor of criminal justice at California State University, Fullerton, said that at the very least, rethinking whether the crime of burglary is “violent” would reframe our understanding of who exactly is in our prisons—and who should potentially be let out.  “Burglary just means entering a structure with the ‘intent’ to commit some kind of crime therein—even if you step right back out and nothing else happens,” he said. “It’s just going inside; anything you do additionally, like robbery, would be charged as an additional offense.”  We should ask ourselves why exactly that’s considered violent, he said.

Kopp acknowledges that some burglaries are categorized as violent because of the implied threat of force, or the potential of inflicting psychological violence upon a victim who comes home to see that his or her personal space has been invaded.  But in this country, he pointed out, only about 3 percent of the millions of burglaries that take place every year involve any actual violence against a human being.

Thinking about how better to punish such crimes — rather than just focusing on shoplifting and low-level drug possession — might be the next step for states that are serious about prison reform.

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"When 'Violent Offenders' Commit Nonviolent Crimes"

The title of this post is the title of this interesting recent Marshall Project piece. I recommend it in full, and here are excerpts:

[M]any of the “violent offenders” in U.S. prisons are there for crimes that not everyone would classify as violent.  According to a Marshall Project survey of all 50 states’ laws, you can get charged and convicted as a violent criminal in more than a dozen states if you enter a dwelling that’s not yours.  That might seem like a property crime, but it’s often deemed a violent one: burglary.  Similarly, purse snatching is considered a “violent” offense in several states. So are the manufacture of methamphetamines and theft of drugs.

Our survey of statutes yielded even more surprising examples.  In Kentucky, committing “Possession of Anhydrous Ammonia in an Unapproved Container with Intent to Manufacture Methamphetamine” a second time puts you in a “violent” category under the law — and you’ll face 20 to 50 years in prison. In Minnesota, aiding an attempted suicide is listed as violent, as is marijuana possession (depending on the amount).  In North Carolina, trafficking a stolen identity and selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school or playground are both violent crimes, according to the state’s “habitual violent offender” statute.  And in New York, it’s deemed a violent felony to simply possess a loaded gun illegally — with “loaded” defined as simply being in possession of bullets....

Those classifications aren’t just semantics: When a crime is described as “violent,” there are all kinds of consequences for incarcerated people. Anyone convicted of such offenses can face longer mandatory-minimum sentences, the triggering of “three-strikes-you’re-out” and “habitual violent offender” penalties and, in immigration cases, are at risk of deportation.

They can also be disenfranchised at the ballot box: Some states let certain nonviolent ex-prisoners vote, but not violent ones. And they are often placed in different housing behind bars, according to their supposed violence level.

Rethinking whether these kinds of crimes should be considered violent would change the conversation about what must be done to cut the incarcerated population, some advocates of prison reform say.  Take two states — Minnesota and North Carolina — that classify several questionable crimes as violent.

In Minnesota, approximately 3,092 prisoners out of a total imprisoned population of 9,849 were locked up for “violent” crimes that, on second glance, might not seem all that violent, according to a Marshall Project analysis of July 2018 data. These include burglary—entering a building without consent and with the intent to commit a crime — and drug crimes.  In North Carolina, a significant portion of those behind bars — 7,532 of about 35,700 total prisoners — were incarcerated as of 2018 for crimes deemed violent according to the state’s habitual violent offender law.

These include “habitual breaking and entering,” trafficking in stolen identities, embezzlement of large amounts of money and obtaining property by false pretenses, as well as drug dealing.  If those convicted of such offenses ever get re-arrested, they could, at the bail hearing, be considered to have a violent criminal history — and therefore be sent to jail instead of getting released on bond or supervision.  If they are later released but fail a urine test, they could be returned to prison as a violent offender, even though testing positive for drugs is not a violent crime....

Phillip Kopp, an assistant professor of criminal justice at California State University, Fullerton, said that at the very least, rethinking whether the crime of burglary is “violent” would reframe our understanding of who exactly is in our prisons—and who should potentially be let out.  “Burglary just means entering a structure with the ‘intent’ to commit some kind of crime therein—even if you step right back out and nothing else happens,” he said. “It’s just going inside; anything you do additionally, like robbery, would be charged as an additional offense.”  We should ask ourselves why exactly that’s considered violent, he said.

Kopp acknowledges that some burglaries are categorized as violent because of the implied threat of force, or the potential of inflicting psychological violence upon a victim who comes home to see that his or her personal space has been invaded.  But in this country, he pointed out, only about 3 percent of the millions of burglaries that take place every year involve any actual violence against a human being.

Thinking about how better to punish such crimes — rather than just focusing on shoplifting and low-level drug possession — might be the next step for states that are serious about prison reform.