[clue-talk] The War On...?

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:54:09PM -0700, Jed S. Baer wrote the following:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:49:40 -0700
> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> > I saw this in the midst of some java blog entries. Being the cynic I am,
> > I can't help but think this is another War on Some Drugs in the making
> > (there aren't enough "criminals", so the gov't declares a new sort of
> > "criminal", and it's never the really big fish that need incarceration,
> > of course).
> 
> The guy is facing a possible maximum sentence of 15 years. To compare that
> to actual sentences given in actual cases is a bit disengenuous. Now I
> agree that 15 years for $200,000 (estimated) in damages is excessive. But
> do you think he'll get that on a first offense? Well, maybe. What would
> have been a valid comparison in that entry would have been the current
> max. sentences for violent crime, as of 2004, instead of actual sentences
> from 1995.
> 
> jed

Having done research on crime-statistics (for an anti-war-on-drugs speech I
gave for Public Speaking class), finding stats any more recent then 9-10
years old is hard at best.

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