By that rationale, we should lock up everyone who commits any crime for life, because there might be a chance, someday down the road, that they will do something worse.
Sorry, I don’t buy it. And furthermore, the risk of injury to innocent person or property is simply too great from wild police chases. I’m just not interested in supporting that kind of policy.
What, by my rational backed up by scripture, I simply prove that ignoring small crimes leads up to bigger crimes. (example: Clinton not taking action on the first WTC bombing with a truck bomb, directly lead to OBL to try his second deadly attack).. I am not saying that if you jaywalk you should be held in forever in prison, I am saying that if you get away with a crime once, you might be inclined to try it again and again until you get the message that it will not be tolerated.
And furthermore, the risk of injury to innocent person or property is simply too great from wild police chases.
I just proved that ignoring what you called a "petty" crime lead to the death of a fine man. Anyone with any semblance of common sense knows that people that are allowed to do evil and get away with it does not stop crime, it only encourages it. Compare crime statistics from the US to other countries where crime is held accountable, and see which country is floundering, and it seems wealth does not play a role because the poorer middle-east countries have nearly zero crime.
I will leave you with some more pearls.. I don't know if I cast them before swine or not... we will see..
* Let grace be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness... Isa. 26:10
* A man of great wrath will suffer punishment; for if you rescue him, you will have to do it again. Prov. 19:19
"because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold" (Mat. 24:12).