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[Warpy]

1. Burglary.

Keep them locked up until they're too old and fat to kick in doors or fit through windows.

[hifiguy]

2. Financial frauds of various kinds

The banksters should be locked up in perpetuity.

[NYC_SKP]

20. Yes, crimes like this, white collar crimes with human victims. nt

[jberryhill]

30. That's exactly where I went...

The forgers, swindlers, identity thieves, and bank vice presidents.

[Gormy Cuss]

32. Certainly should be locked up for financial frausd on a grand scale.

It hurts more people and corrupts society more than a lot of petty property crime.

[stone space]

3. Bringing a gun into a calculus classroom. (nt)

[pablo_marmol]

24. "Mere violent crime"

Interesting word combination.

[MineralMan]

5. Sure. Serious fraud that ruins people's lives.

Identity theft that bankrupts people.
Political corruption.

[bravenak]

6. Bank Fraud and corruption.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Distribution of child porn. n/t

[HereSince1628]

8. I can imagine such,

Use of coercion to steal labor/ force a person into slavery

theft of pensions

Falsification of evidence in a criminal trial to convict an innocent person...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. Yes, loads.

Off the top of my head

More severe cases of theft or fraud.
Some forms of intimidation.
Blackmail.
Aggravated drunk driving.
Attempting to get people falsely convicted of crimes.

I'm sure there are others.

[Dont call me Shirley]

10. 1. Cheating honest people out of their homes, jobs, healthcare and life-savings.

2. Dumping poisons into our air, water, food and buildings.

3. Corrupting our democracy and bribing government officials.

4. Knowingly selling dangerous products as safe.

[pablo_marmol]

26. Kudos!

We need to redefine what constitutes violent crime, IMO. Your example #1 should meet everyone's definition of violence.

[rock]

33. I got here late

What was your #1 (which the next poster said was violent)?

[Katashi_itto]

11. Cannibalism.

[pablo_marmol]

25. Unless you eat a vegetarian.

[Katashi_itto]

38. :)

[Nye Bevan]

12. Who is calling for "non-violent offenders to be released"?

I don't see anyone clamoring for Bernie Madoff to walk free.

OTOH if it were non-violent pot offenders that would be a different matter.

[Katashi_itto]

13. Salmon Smuggling.

[pinboy3niner]

34. Only if it's done on porpoise

With mollusks aforethought.

[Katashi_itto]

37. +10000!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

42. Or even wonton recklessness. nt

[Orrex]

39. That'll get you sent to death roe.

[Katashi_itto]

14. Jaywalking.

With a tank.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. Yes, the raising of a blatant straw man should be life without chance of parole.

nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

41. DUzy! nt

[JI7]

17. who is calling for all non violent offenders to be released ?

[Generic Brad]

18. Arson

[Mariana]

21. Wage theft. nt.

[Scuba]

22. Sure, bilking pensioners and homeowners out of billions. Bribery by elected officials.

Covering up the rape of children.

Laundering dirty money for drug cartels and enemy states.

Tax cheating over $1,000,000.

Any many more, none of which are drug possession offenses.

[flyingfysh]

23. Bernie Madoff

He swindled people out of more than 50 billion dollars. Who would suggest that a year is enough for him? A lot of people lost their life savings because of him.

[FoxNewsSucks]

27. Voting republican.

Deserves life imprisonment. Maybe with an option to be exiled to Texas after they secede.

[guillaumeb]

28. simply being Dick Cheney

let me add George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush as well.

And Franklin Graham

I must stop here or I will not stop.

[truebluegreen]

29. Corruption. Financial fraud of all types.

Polluting our air, water, soil, land, oceans willfully or through negligence. Toss all those assholes in jail and confiscate all the money they made with their nefarious practices, and use it to repair the damage they did, plus job-training for the people we actually want to get back into society and back to work.

[razorman]

31. Pissing me off.

[Lee-Lee]

35. Lots of them

Felony larceny and other forms of theft.

Fraud that rises to the level to be a felony in its various forms- financial, embezzlement, various scams that prey on the elderly, etc.

Possession, distribution or manufacturer of child pornography.

2nd or more offense DUI.

Human trafficking.

Forgery and counterfitting.

Illegal sale/trafficking of weapons, doing a straw purchase of a weapon for a prohibited person.


Just a few off the top of my head.

[Hekate]

36. Yes, I can think of several that ruin others' lives. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. Umm, I think Bernie Madoff is very justifiably spending the rest of his life behind bars.

And I think most people would agree. He ruined people's lives.