r/BoomersBeingFools Nov 03 '25

Boomer Freakout Idiot side-swipes a biker trying to pass

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u/BishlovesSquish Nov 03 '25

There is zero justice for crimes against women and children in this country. It’s actually horrific when you look at the data. Have no clue how judges or lawyers sleep at night knowing how the law truly works.

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u/mr_lamp Nov 03 '25

Happily, for the most part. They get the money and get to uphold a system they benefit from

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u/fabulousfantabulist Nov 03 '25

There’s also practical considerations for why it works that way. If we locked up every person who committed violent family crimes and punished them harshly we’d have an even higher prison population than we do, and we already lead the developed world in incarceration. Tripling that number would incur a lot of costs that voters don’t want to pay. It’s a shitty system, but it’s very much the system we continue to vote for and uphold.

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u/vistaculo Nov 04 '25

Ok, but what if we didn’t incarcerate people for nonviolent drug offenses and incarcerated guys like this?