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