Showing posts with label scrap metal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scrap metal. Show all posts
Sunday, August 07, 2011

In for a penny, in for a state jail felony

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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has a pair of stories from the Texas District and County Attorney Association's legislative briefings, whic...
Sunday, July 03, 2011

Scrap metal thefts rise despite steep penalties for theft: Best deterrent is business regulation

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For years, Grits has blasted the legislative impulse to increase criminal penalties as the solution to every purported problem, and one of t...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Copper theft: Case study in failed criminal penalty enhancements

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Every two years, Texas legislators troop to the House Criminal Jurisprudence and Senate Criminal Justice Committees to promote a seemingly e...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Penalty increases for scrap metal thieves a bust; better police tactics needed more than harsher penalties

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Increasing penalties for stealing small amounts of copper and other industrial metals have done nothing to slow the rate of thefts in the Me...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Felony rap for stealing copper wire hasn't stopped thefts

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Laws increasing criminal penalties tend to be a one-way ratchet; they only get harsher, they're seldom reduced. An example that will lik...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Despite Texas prison overcrowding, Criminal Jurisprudence keeps hearing enhancements

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Texas' full prisons result in large part from increased penalty lengths for everything from the most horrific crimes to the most mundan...
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