VA Senate passes legislation to make knowingly reporting false crimes illegal [More]What, make it even more illegal?
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Friday, February 15, 2019
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I think this may belong here instead?
Maybe if we make “real” crimes like murder, assault, robbery, and burglary Super Duper crimes it will have an impact.....on the children.... on Darwin... Paging Mr. Darwin...
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at 1:35 PM
The Senator's motivation is explained here:
https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/bill-that-aims-to-stop-fake-crimes-reported-to-police-passes-virginia-senate/1708491810
The first-term senator from Chesterfield County says she was approached by the county’s chief of police about the incident.
“There’s actually no laws that are currently on the books to address this issue,” Chase said.
Last year, we spoke with a legal expert who said the county could file a civil lawsuit against them for using up so many resources. The expert added that they could receive a disorderly conduct charge or a charge similar to providing false information to police.
Sen. Chase says that’s not enough to deter people.
“So we want to nip this in the bud, we want to be proactive,” she said.
This looks like another case of "hard cases make bad law."
Some people perpetrated a phony assault, a guy chasing a woman. THEY did not report it to police as a crime -- either police picked it up on video themselves, or other people reported it. The guv can't charge the actors with a phony police report, because they never made a police report. The guv is now trying to cover their asses because they looked foolish. The new law makes it illegal to fake a crime unless you are a (so to speak) "licensed actor" or the like. More freedom of speech down the toilet for the "convenience" of government.
What's next? Some bystander is going to call in an assault because a married couple is making whoopie and the wife is a screamer, and the guv is going to find a way to punish the husband because they got embarrassed again? Just remember, you saw it here first.
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