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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I don't get this argument. What rights are the victims missing out on that the accused is enjoying?
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With any incident, the victims have had their rights trampled on - this is what the incident did to start with. Typically (in any incident that I've known about) there is no compensation to make up for this - if their stuff is stolen it's rarely returned, if their doors are broken then it's possibly insurance or out of their pocket to repair them, etc.
The only kind of compensation that they can ever hope to get is to have the person(s) who committed the crime to pay for their acts and/or prevented from doing it again... and then they see this person being coddled and protected and given a slap on the wrist, hoping that they'll have seen the error of their ways to never return.
There just seems to be an overwhelming "so what if you've had your rights trampled on... we can't do anything about that... we just have to make sure that we don't do the same to the one that disrespected your rights".