So much easier to victim blame ngl

This is rich… guy is in here advocating for his dealer lmao

Easier to smuggle since you need less of it to provide the same high.

Are you suggesting they track down each granule?

Or is it safe to say that the weight given by police speaks better to the idea that they were trafficking rather than possessing, since the dealers will divide it up later as necessary to wholesale?

Nobody does pure fentanyl. It’s all cut. So it’s one thing to try to push a simple possession charge but when we’re talking this size the whole number tells the whole story.

These guys were gonna make a fuck load of money off of the death and misery off of people and the fact that you’re trying to minimize it is pretty disgusting.

Half of Reddit would like a word with you

Nah let’s do it by race instead so we can get them removed and really hamstring the police from investigating these shootings.

Yeah with already razor thin margins there’s no reason to keep the stores open that are hit hardest by petty theft. It’s just doing more damage to an already hurting bottom line. Again… these aren’t charities, they’re businesses. Why do you think these companies owe you or city council anything? They’re a business making a business decision.

Just because you don’t get it doesn’t make it my fault.

Ok, then you don’t get to complain when mass and cass and other poor areas of the city are a food and convenience desert.

Those companies are 100% right to not waste their time and effort for so little ROI.

Well I look forward to your utopia where everything is free

What? Multiple companies have a “shall prosecute” policy and it’s handled by the DAs office, not corporate business lawyers. Not only that but their staff doesn’t intervene, it’s police. So none of what you said has ever been or will it ever be true, so you can stop speaking as if you’re an expert on the subject.

And news flash, nobody gives a fuck about $20 worth of shit, I care about the people loading their vehicles up with thousands of dollars worth of merchandise several times a day all across the commonwealth.

Given your position on the topic I’m going to tell you right now these types of organizations are far more common than you think and are absolutely cashing in on our new found desire for fake justice and once again the only real losers are the regular people that nobody ever seems to care about since they’re losing their convienne store and pharmacy because at some point these companies can’t take the losses any more and decide to vacate.

Yeah that article is something else.

It can be summed up with the following sentence:

“If we close our eyes and cover our ears, crime goes down.”

Like I said, this is the result of that ideology that this research doesn’t delve into. Bottom line is that “victimless crimes” such as stealing do in fact have victims and they’re not running charities so at some point they’re going to make business decisions in the course of running their business.

But it was widespread government policy. It’s just the flip side of this:

https://www.vera.org/news/what-happened-when-boston-stopped-prosecuting-nonviolent-crimes

Also… yes, not prosecuting shoplifting does lead to a drop in shoplifting complaints… because people stop reporting things that aren’t viewed as crimes.

The fact that they’ve already placed multiple people in fear and have likely traumatized many of them. He’s victimizing people, not property, and appears to be escalating.

He can be held as he is clearly a danger to the public if he is allowed to be free and the state can’t guarantee the safety of the public from this monster whiles he’s out on bail.

But who am I kidding, we’ve got people on ELMO for shooting people still shooting people and nobody is interested in holding them so this guy will be out by the close of court today. Hopefully that makes you feel better about the states current bail situation.

There are crimes where bail (should just be RoR if bail applies unless the person has the means aka lots of money to flee prosecution) is applicable, and crimes (like this one) where it is not.

We have a saying for the bail commissioners: “Make it $40 since it might as well be a million.” Bail is backwards.

In this case? He should just be held.

I bet he’s already bailed on PR.

Hopefully the court did the right thing and held him but some of these judges simply do not give a fuck about the community.

Yeah police can’t be relied on for everything. When the society itself refuses to participate then this is what you get.

A lot of cops watched it and enjoyed it.

The only bad plot line was the lawyer that didn’t understand why cops had given up on trying following the malicious prosecution of the officers involved in Freddie Gray