Quote Originally Posted by cigarsarge
OK Chuck here is a little solid info for you. About 90% of people in jail are there due to some substance abuse.
While this is true, those people are not in jail for committing a violent crime. They are in jail for posessing or dealing an illegal substance. And my girlfriend knows many of them. :) I don't. I know the guys that are in for violent crimes. And one of them has my white practice jersey.

To reiterate...Smoking pot is a crime as well as trespassing. That makes you a criminal if you choose engage in that sort of behavior. Murdering you fellow man is a crime. That makes you a criminal if you engage in that kind of behavior.
So it speeding, littering, not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign, watering your lawn during a water ban, and parking on the wrong side of the street. But it's not right for me to suspect them of committing a heinous crime because they do something as morally wrong as parking in a 2 hour zone for 3 hours...

If you are so sure people that hang out in vacant buildings and smoke dope are OK...I suggest you go hang with em. You might get a little surprise.
I live with one of them. That's the environment my girlfriend grew up in. Most of them are just a hazard to themselves. For the most part, they'll spend their lives in and out of jails and prisons, getting picked up on posession or some petty theft or something. I think pinning them as mother rapers and father rapers is a bit of a prejudice. They're probably not going to end up on the town council, but they're not likely to end up on the front page, either.

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