Yea, what I mean by "people who make decisions" is everybody involved: studios, distributors, rights holders, and the maze of middlemen who have inserted themselves into the business: If all of them decided that more money could be made, if not for those pesky licenses, the "licensing problems" would immediately disappear.
Objectively, he was the most effective US president we’ve had in decades.
Trump’s campaign promises were all of the form “X is so bad it will destroy the country and I will fix X”!
Replace X with some problem that Biden had already fixed (factory investment, crime rate reduction, getting inflation under control after the previous president printed money for 4 yeara, etc, etc).
The point is that a pilot sitting on quick alert can't go bomb the Russians on their own.
Even more importantly, a NATO pilot sitting on quick alert with a borrowed American nuclear bomb cannot bomb the Russians (or their mother-in-law) on their own.
In California, rape of an unconscious person is not considered a violent felony for the purposes of 'strikes' as well as early release from prison. A rapist may serve as little as 50% of their sentence due to this fact.
It was only this year (2025) that rape of an unconscious person who was made unconscious by the assailant (a date rape drug provision like Germany's) became a violent felony. Germany is not alone in these types of reclassifications.
In California, attacking someone with a knife, solicitation of murder, and shooting a gun at someone in their car are all nonviolent felonies.
I'm happy--indeed eager--to have all of these (correctly) classified as violent felonies. But there's simply the matter of public opinion and how much space in state prisons there is. If we hold prison capacity constant, increasing the severity of punishment of one crime necessarily decreases the severity of punishment of other crimes.
The US has a lot of people in prison for "Felony Murder" .. being loosely connected to a crime in which someone dies.
This isn't even a crime in many other countries, the UK, Australia, for example.
Those countries charge people for their actions, not the actions of others.
In the US you have people on long sentences for Felony Murder because as teenagers they and friends broke into a house to rob it, and had one of the group shot by police, home owners, security.
Instead of a year or two for robbery, or even a parole sentence and hefty fine for being young and damn and trying doors they end up with fifty year or life sentences due to other people killing one of their friends.
There's one (of many) area that could be cleaned out to make room for the actually intentionally violent.
So if my importing a restricted exotic animal (felony under the Lacey act) leads to someone’s death (TSA agent shooting my mom who becomes hysterical as she sees the snake in my suitcase) I could go to prison for life?
From what I read of the uneven application of that which is termed "justice" in the US I imagine it to be possible that a career hungry prosecutor roped in to cover up a potential scandal might see an opportunity to threaten you with a Felony Murder charge and force you into a plea deal should you happened to be, let's say, somewhat less than of pearly unshaded WASP white heritage and lack connections.
California's rather controversial Prop 57 (early release from prison) uses the list of violent felonies outlined in § 667.5(c) of the California penal code, which excludes a number of felonies many feel are in fact violent. This is because it that list was never intended to be used as an exhaustive list or used for determining early release from prison, it was supposed to be a list of the most dire felonies used for calculating mandatory life imprisonment. Jerry Brown and his supporters changed that, and thus rape of an unconscious person and many other violent crimes still allowed perpetrators to serve only half of their sentences.
California Senate Bill 268 closed the classification gap by adding certain rapes of intoxicated or unconscious victims (especially when the defendant administered the intoxicating substance) to the list of “violent felonies” under § 667.5. It went into effect at the beginning of 2025.
It's insane this is downvoted when it's the truth. Again and again the person is running from something small, but that's not an indictment of the chase, it's proof of how freaking stupid and self-centered the subject is: they are willing to put dozens of lives at risk to avoid something like getting their car towed because they're driving on a suspended license. The officer chases them because they don't know why they're running (but it must be a good reason to risk picking up a felony), not because going after a suspended license is worth a chase.
We are seeing the result of a combination of factors including aversion to consequences and the inability to empathize with those they put at risk.
its a breakdown of community, with capitalism largely to blame. In small towns, this type of behavior is less likely when you know the sheriff or judge and feel like they are a part of your social sphere. In a large city, any red-light-flashing cop is just an NPC that spawed and will take your in-game credits. I think this is the result - for many of us - when each person we see every day is likely someone we'll never see again. The megacity is just a huge machine with sharp gears and lurking dangers you have to evade.
Raping an unconscious person is not on the list of violent felonies. Neither is domestic violence with traumatic injury, assault with a deadly weapon, or felony battery with serious bodily injury.
See also: military jet engines. They can't replicate high end engines from Pratt & Whitney or GE even though I'm guessing Chinese intelligence services have a huge amount of relevant information. I don't know why that is.
It's probably hands on experience that's missing. Even with the all the technical details, often times there's practical details on using this machine or tiny tweaks that need to be made to get it working well.
The lesson I keep getting from your experiences is that LEADS needs an overhaul.
It turns out other states do have flags for things like "extraditable warrant" vs. just failure to appear warrants (something mentioned in previous discussions), and perhaps something could be done about the LEADS system if attention was given to it. It seems like fixing one's data sources is a great approach vs. tossing the baby out with the bathwater — unless of course that's the intention all along, as it is with many opposed to state-owned surveillance of this nature.
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