alt Hacker NewsSo e.g. >90% (or whatever it’s now multiplied by several times) should be entirely ignored because the legal/judicial system won’t have enough resources to prosecute them?
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Yes. Scale up the judicial system and cut laws if needed.
Also, there will likely still be some pleas. Some people own up to being guilty and want to move on.
There is an absolute dearth of lawyers to support this. We just need more courts and more judges for the initial surge of a couple of years.
> because the legal/judicial system won’t have enough resources to prosecute them?
If your legal system doesn't have enough resources to prosecute 90% of people who are committing crimes.................................
.......................................... then maybe the state should.............................................
.................... wait for it...................................
.....................................give the legal system more resources.
(I know right, it's mindblowing, revolutionary, difficult-to-conceive stuff - I can see why nobody has thought of it before)
Don't pass laws that wide swaths of the public don't respect, which would dramatically reduce the number of cases.
When the laws are ones that everyone agrees should be crimes, like murder, spend the resources to convict anyone who commits the crime.