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Originally Posted by Damien
You get different sentences all the time.
And it's not only the 'underclass' as you call them that get fobbed off with a crime number. I am pretty middle-class and when I got my laptop stolen and my house broken into the same thing happened to me.
The difference here is that these idiots are videotaping their crime sprees so they're easily caught and there is a clear public interest in hitting them hard so that others don't feel these riots are a free for all.
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I’m sure everyone gets fobbed off all the time. The difference is you’ve decided the inconsistency is a price worth paying to send them a message. And it might be.
Just don’t be surprised if that message gets lost in translation.
It’s not that hard a sell to say everyone should be equal under the law. Plenty of victims of crime will have been waiting months, even years, to have their day in court.
But nah, someone nicked some crocs out shoe zone in the middle of a riot, it’ll get prioritised and will probably get longer than other serious and violent offences simply because of what she looks like and where she was.