Originally Posted by
lunghushan
Okay, then tell me what exactly I am not grasping. ???
So for example, one of the guys that I was in the cell with, after I left the drunk tank with my still drunk friend (he was totally smashed the next day), was in for driving with a suspended license.
He got a suspended license because he didn't renew his license. He didn't renew his license because he didn't have the $$$, because it was a bad economy.
He said he was going to lose his job because he was out of work that day.
I don't see how he could have avoided that, really. You have to have minimum time on the job to get unemployment in the U.S., like 6 months or something, they don't just give you a license.
If he doesn't work, he doesn't eat.
So how oh esteemed Probation Officer, should he have handled that? And when he's out of jail, nowhere to go, no $$$, what is he supposed to do? Go to some homeless shelter where there are criminals who will hurt you? Homeless shelters in CA had lots of people stabbing people???
If you don't give people options then they're much more likely to make your 'criminal thinking error'.
Personally I'm so sick of the system that I'm not going to do crime. If I can't work, I can't eat. If I can't work, if I can't eat, I'm just going to starve. That's my decision.