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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think juvenile carjackings are terrifying and a real problem, but I think it would probably work better to improve technological deterrents to doing it over putting the offenders in jail for a decade. [/quote]

What type of technological deterrent? Like a spike strips for kids on atvs? I have no idea what you mean? Like tracking cell phones or something?[/quote]

Same. What do you mean??

Car theft= stealing a car that's in someone's driveway. This is harder to do now because it's harder to hotwire cars.

Car jacking= someone opening your car doors while you're in the car (gas station, stop light or parking your car), forcing you out by gunpoint and driving away with your kids in the backseat. There isn't a way to deter this with technology. I mean they often have the keys and the car is running. [/quote]

One technological deterrent is running electricity through carjackers’ bodies until their hearts stop. Just sayin’[/quote]

Or drivers starting to carry guns.  If things get out of control, what do you think will happen logically speaking?  When carjackers will start getting shot in the face, those thinking about committing these crimes may start thinking twice.  Punishment at the hands of anxious and angry citizens might be much worse than what legal system may have in store for them.  And if legal system ceases to function then citizens will start taking justice in their own hands.  Not where we want to go!

We will turn into the 3rd world city where well-to-do residents are hiding behind secure fences or in secure buildings, and where businesses catering to affluent hire security professionals and police themselves.  Middle classes will leave the city for safer options that they can still afford.  And those too poor and relying on public services of the city will be trapped having to protect themselves with whatever weapons they can legally or illegally procure.  Fun times. [/quote]

Always so depressing going down to South America and seeing how people live... eight foot walls, steel bars, wire and wired fences. I'm afraid this is the future unless things change.[/quote]

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