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Originally Posted by ScruU2wice

regardless, giving up a certain amount of money is far less dettering the spending a certain amount of time in jail. I think that your less likely to repeat a crime if you spent time in the slammer then if you had to pay a fine no matter how big it is. Plus as i said before there are certain flaws that we in systems like these that could only recognized in heinsight.

Obviously, this is true. That is the tradeoff in the system. However, this is why it is, for the most part, only extending to minor non-violent crimes.

How do you know what a drug dealer owns if they keep their assets in the Caymens?

You don't, but I'm not even sure if I would really extend this to drug dealers. Those having over a certain amount of drugs and/or were caught selling them would probably serve sentence time. Of course, if all they had were a few small amounts, they'd be recognized as just buyers and might be able to get by with community service as a first time offense.

All this, of course, assuming that his assets could not be traced to. But then again, if all he is carrying are tiny amounts of drugs at a time, he'd probably wouldn't be a very successful dealer, much less have a large enough possessions to make the money given up to the state be very substantial.