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The dragging down of minor offenses to serious offenses is a dangerous thing.

Otherwise, the justification [they are sex offenders] falls flat when other types of ex-felons commit sex offenses more frequently.

Belgian prisons are also overcrowded and justice system understaffed so that prosecuting small one-time offenses is definitely not a priority.

Something as simple as crossing your arms or speaking when you are not spoken to can be seen as grave offenses.

Just because a section of the law also has criminal offenses specified does not make all invocations of that law criminal.

The response from the larger Reddit community has varied: some was legit, some expressions of outrage over real or imagined past offenses.

Sure, but minor offenses are often a pretense for racial profiling, where the thing that attracted the cop's attention is driving while black.

Someone with a string of offenses can easily get up to 10 years.

It's why young African Americans are more likely to be arrested for minor drug offenses, despite offending less then the average young white person.

Extradition treaties usually cover only offenses that are crimes in both countries.

I remain puzzled that the Statute of Limitations for many civil offenses such as medical malpractice is four years, while offenses such as workplace discrimination for reasons of age or disability is just five months.

In America nearly 50% of the federal prison population are in for drug offenses according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons data current as of may 30th, 2015[0].

These are not trivial criminal offenses.” Kiriakou alleges that his prosecution was retaliation for his leaking of the CIA's waterboarding tactics.

You could be sentenced to years of hard labor for a variety of offenses, and you would then be "rented" to landowners or to companies such as U.

In wars, invasions, etc, including those done by "democratic powers" few care about "misindentification" (or even far worse offenses to the enemies including civilians).

I have found urban cops to be less responsive and more prone to take a police report over the phone (for insurance purposes) then to actually deal with robbery or other "minor" offenses.