I’ll review my posts, but in short you are wrong - I referred to people already convicted.Ken wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 1:21 pm For example, here on this forum it took me only a couple of minutes to find these examples of posters here using the term to describe people who have not yet been convicted of felonies in a court of law.
Josh and Grace have objected to Trump being described as a criminal because he has not yet been convicted. Let's see how they and others here have used the term on this forum in other contexts. In every example below the term is being used to describe people who have not yet been convicted of felonies:
Sentencing is what happens after a conviction.Josh wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:26 pmThese are illegal guns and have been since 1968. The only solution here is for law enforcement to start actually enforcing the law.
That means controversial things like profiling suspects likely to have an illegal gun, stop and frisk, no more easy bail, and strict sentencing of violent criminals. All things that have stopped in the last 10 years.
Of course not everyone running around shooting people is a convicted criminal but most are.If you don’t want criminals shooting you with illegal guns, the laws have to be enforced against them. That means locking them up and depriving them of “civil liberties”.
Yes, many of them are guilty of crimes in their home countries. And many more commit crimes here.
Yes, the drug cartels running things in eg Mexico often have convictions and extensive prison networks.Josh wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:11 amGovernment corruption is endemic in Mexico (and dare I say much of Latin America). Eventually this kind of rife corruption leads to control by criminals instead of a democracy. This is one reason I am opposed to moving the population en masse from these kind of states into America, since it means the same sort of corruption will show up here.
Someone who is caught, charged, has a trial or plea, and then gets no sentence is still a criminal.Josh wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:17 pmYou do have a point that some states, such as California and Illinois, have decided not to prosecute things like offences committed using illegal guns and instead let criminals go free who reoffend over and over, despite harsh laws about breaking gun laws being on the books.
I think that should stop, and activist DAs need to be removed who refuse to enforce existing laws against quality-of-life crimes and violent crimes. The amount of (illegal) gun violence in Chicago is ridiculous. Yet the new mayor of Chicago has promised to enforce even fewer laws than his predecessor.
The simple fact is, people like Biden and Trump aren’t “criminals”, despite what their political foes are constantly claiming.