Ep1cFac3pa1m to Ask Lemmy · 11 days agoYou’ve been tasked with defining a new area of criminal law called “economic and financial violence,” and creating laws to prevent it. What actions would you try to criminalize?message-squaremessage-square97linkfedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1105arrow-down1message-squareYou’ve been tasked with defining a new area of criminal law called “economic and financial violence,” and creating laws to prevent it. What actions would you try to criminalize?Ep1cFac3pa1m to Ask Lemmy · 11 days agomessage-square97linkfedilinkfile-text
For example: private equity firms buying trailer parks and raising rents so high that people go bankrupt
minus-squareEp1cFac3pa1mOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·11 days agoI’d go one step further and eliminate qualified immunity. Give citizens the ability to bring charges against cops for violating any of their rights. If the cops can’t produce bodycam footage of the incident, it’s a default judgment against them.
I’d go one step further and eliminate qualified immunity. Give citizens the ability to bring charges against cops for violating any of their rights. If the cops can’t produce bodycam footage of the incident, it’s a default judgment against them.