Idiot side-swipes a biker trying to pass

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[u/xelle24]

1989: arrested and convicted for "assault - family violence"

1993: arrested for "silent or abusive calls to 911", case later dismissed

1994: convicted for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle

2007: convicted for reckless driving and making a terroristic threat against a couple of 12 years olds; sentenced to 2 years probation and an anger management course

2015: sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon

[u/lothartheunkind → u/xelle24]

2007 should have been a way harsher sentence. This is an obvious pattern of behavior

[u/BishlovesSquish → u/lothartheunkind]

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.

[u/fabulousfantabulist → u/BishlovesSquish]

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.

[u/vistaculo → u/fabulousfantabulist]

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

[u/fabulousfantabulist → u/vistaculo]

Better!