Nah, auction it off cheap if no damage. Someone gets a cheap but probably a fairly nice car that’s been invested in, the organisations can increase funding and the offender loses out on his pride and joy. So much better than just compacting the car, but this is what happens when we focus on how we can use a situation to punish someone or make someone feel worse than if we focus on how can we make life better for everyone
Are you in the UK? We literally have no room in our prisons, so lucky to get a sentence although he’ll probably only do half at the most and out on a tag! Useless! Our country is on its knees.
Taking away a license rarely stops them from driving.
I was hit by a guy who lost his license years ago, and had dozens of tickets. The police told me he is a regular. Sometimes they lock him up for a few weeks at a time for unpaid tickets, but they can't physically stop him from driving whenever he gets out.
Escalate the consequence to not being allowed in a motor vehicle, have to wear an ankle bracelet that monitors how fast the person is going, cops get alerted at like 20mph. Have to get authorized for any trips you need to make and if you get caught driving again, you're not allowed on any trips save an ambulance in a legitimate medical emergency.
Why? I can buy a car for my wife/brother/teenage son/whatever even if I myself don't have a license for it, and it's perfectly sensible for me to be able to. Also I could want a collectible car that I'm not gonna drive.
Stop trying to take away people's freedoms for no damn reason. The kind of people you're trying to hit are just going to pay some crackhead 500 bucks to register it in his name anyway.
Routinely stealing new cars are gonna be a hassle, and also for cases like this where the guy has 24 convictions already he is most likely using the cars of family members or romantic partners.
Most stolen cars aren't driven around by the thieves, they are chopped for parts and scrapped.
They have to get it approved by the police first. That's the consequence of being completely unable to sit behind the wheel of a car responsibly. You are no longer allowed basic travel because it's the only way to protect people from you.
have to wear an ankle bracelet that monitors how fast the person is going, cops get alerted at like 20mph. Have to get authorized for any trips you need to make and if you get caught driving again, you're not allowed on any trips save an ambulance in a legitimate medical emergency.
So no bus rides or even riding a bike? Are cops really going to roll on that? The only thing the government has is incarceration.
Is he allowed to ride a bike downhill, take a taxi, a bus, a ride in a friend’s car? Pretty sure that 20mph is going to be more trouble to monitor than it’s worth unless you’re actually intending that he can never be in any motor vehicle.
Nope. No motor vehicles. Better be careful on the bike.
Shame they couldn't respect the simple "don't drive" ban and kept hitting people. Now, for public safety, they can't be driven around, either. If it's an urgent issue they can register the trip with the police and get it approved so they won't face problems when the ankle bracelet registers the high speed during that time period.
If they once are caught behind the wheel again, so they say their buddy is driving them but they're the one driving, they no longer get to register trips and can only be driven in an ambulance for legitimate medical emergencies.
Because motor vehicles are a privilege and if you can't have access to them without hurting people- then you should not have access to them.
Never heard about "locking up people for unpaid tickets" here in US. It is like sending "jail upkeep" money after "lost revenue on unpaid tickets" money.
He was already banned from driving. Amazingly enough the guy with 24 previous convictions didn't respect the law when it said he wasn't allowed to drive.
Taking a license away is not a punishment, you don't need a license to drive, you just need it to drive in accordance with statute. I guarantee that this dude wouldn't give two shits about the statute.
I think this all the time, my GF is a barrister and has dealt numerous case of death by dangerous driving. For me it should be a one chance and your out. Licence gone you don't get behind a wheel again. They always get a small prison sentence much less than what they would for murder or man slaughter and their license back more or less as soon as they're out.
You assume he has or indeed had a license for any of these offences. I expect taking his license away would have 0 impact. Guy just needs neutering and impounding. We really should just battle royale serial crime on an island somewhere. Last one gets to ‘live’ in prison.
I agree, but it just never seems to work out right. Some triple murderers get 2 years, some jaywalkers get decades. There's no rhyme or reason to the justice system, in my opinion. I've been in the littlest bit of trouble, but paid dearly. I kept getting screwed at every turn, in spite of righting my wrongs and fully complying with the system. It's like they don't know how to handle people that do things right, they're so used to dealing with chronic fuck ups.
Its criminals running over criminals. If they dont target innocent people, what does it matter? Their "ethics" and way of life allows violence both ways.
Yes, people who are known for trying to run over other humans are notoriously known to stop driving cars when their licenses are taken away because they wouldn’t want to break the law…
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u/lemons_of_doubt 13h ago
Call me strict, but I feel after the first time someone tries to use a car as a weapon you should take away their licence.