Give the man a cigar...
"IF three strikes were applied to violent and property crime, it would work as intended."
This particular mook was convicted of stealing golf clubs for his 'magic 3rd' if I'm not mistaken. Golf clubs are property, last time I checked.
I have no problem with 3 time losers being sent away forever. It's not like they weren't warned or anything. I just want to see it applied to rapists, thieves, and burglars instead of some poor sap who gets popped with a couple of joints in his pocket.
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Not just the three strikes, but the police efforts, too. Solution rates for proprty crime suck. If they sucked less, property crime would plummet due to a "virtuous cycle" in which more cops were chasing fewer loose burglars, since the most prolific ones are in jail for a loooong stretch. The same goes for robbery.
But the cops are busy planning big drug busts that do little or nothing to take burglars and robbers off the street.