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A cynical answer for fixing crime....

Make all crimes have unlimited statue of limitations

Understand you have no Constitutional right to be charged with a crime you have been accused of doing

This loophole avoids due process for an accused person entirely

The unlimited statue of limitations will allow any law enforcement agent investigating you to have unlimited powers as judge, jury and possibly executioner.

The state legislature will no longer need to worry about passing laws with associated crime and punishment

Since the accused will never have a day in court and never have to face any punishment defined by law, it will save lots of money paying for courts, judges, Juries, prosecutors and public defenders.

All accused people can be treated as guilty until proven innocent and will have no opportunity to prove innocence

The endless "investigation" can slowly take away the accused life over time. First family and friends, followed by their career and home.

Before long they cannot work, they become homeless, and the process itself simply becomes the method of execution.

Crime solved. /s

(This is actually being done to me)



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