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Originally Posted by Wolven
That may be true of the system but I would hope a guy would be treated the same way for a couple bottles of water and a bag of chips.
Having said that, I think a part of the charges that go in with their probations, conditional discharges and lack of criminal charges should be to shift some of the $3M cost of charging these people off of the taxpayers and onto the rioters.
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Indeed, that is part of the reason why people are sentenced with conditional discharges: so that the community avoids another person with a criminal record who, due to that criminal record, struggles to find employment and integrate with society and therefore draws heavily on community resources.