Based on what I know from only this video, I'll say people are right. I'm always on the side of the cops not wasting time on victimless crimes. I don't know where this is, but you're telling me they don't have something else to do? Are all the gangs still shooting each other? Are all the thefts resolved? I've had hit and runs and thefts happen to me and the police didn't even bother to collect evidence and were often dicks about me even bothering them at all.
It would have been plenty good enough to just diffuse and even if they have to arrest the guy a simple misdemeanor, night in jail, free to go come back and pay a fine. Cops don't seem mentally capable of doing that, they have to throw the book at someone because that's what gives them their jollies.
Things that would change my opinion would be something like this guy was driving down the middle of the freeway, etc.
A friend of mine got a DUI about a decade ago. As he described it, the legal process was a sort of "choose your own adventure" where every outcome resulted in about the same restrictions and dollar amount spent by the accused.
If you did nothing and just pled guilty, you'd pay about a $10k fine, they'd yank your license for a time, and you have some restrictions on your license once you got it back.
If you retained a lawyer, the DA filed all sorts of motions to ensure that the total fines + legal fees ended up being about $10k. Maybe the lawyer was able to negotiate down the duration of restrictions or get one or two minor ones knocked down (eg. being able to drive to/from work instead of a blanket license yank).
At the end of it he wondered why he even got the lawyer in the first place, but it was one of those things where once you go down a path you can't turn around and try the other one instead.
Based on what I know from only this video, I'll say people are right. I'm always on the side of the cops not wasting time on victimless crimes. I don't know where this is, but you're telling me they don't have something else to do? Are all the gangs still shooting each other? Are all the thefts resolved? I've had hit and runs and thefts happen to me and the police didn't even bother to collect evidence and were often dicks about me even bothering them at all.
It would have been plenty good enough to just diffuse and even if they have to arrest the guy a simple misdemeanor, night in jail, free to go come back and pay a fine. Cops don't seem mentally capable of doing that, they have to throw the book at someone because that's what gives them their jollies.
Things that would change my opinion would be something like this guy was driving down the middle of the freeway, etc.
A friend of mine got a DUI about a decade ago. As he described it, the legal process was a sort of "choose your own adventure" where every outcome resulted in about the same restrictions and dollar amount spent by the accused.
If you did nothing and just pled guilty, you'd pay about a $10k fine, they'd yank your license for a time, and you have some restrictions on your license once you got it back.
If you retained a lawyer, the DA filed all sorts of motions to ensure that the total fines + legal fees ended up being about $10k. Maybe the lawyer was able to negotiate down the duration of restrictions or get one or two minor ones knocked down (eg. being able to drive to/from work instead of a blanket license yank).
At the end of it he wondered why he even got the lawyer in the first place, but it was one of those things where once you go down a path you can't turn around and try the other one instead.