To quote the song, “Mister, you’re a better man than I.” However, being a middle-class, white male, the very idea of paying for my iniquities is shocking. As I told a friend when he was stopped for too-dark, shaded windows on his car and blamed it on being harassed his color, “Yeah, what do you think we PAY the cops to do?” (only partially 
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It comes down to poor spelling ability. Can’t tell the difference between persecuted and prosecuted.
Very much a distortion, and largely untrue.
Whilst it is true that criminals are human and therefore have human characteristics, the quoted statement is highly misleading.
Criminals cut across a wide range of characteristics such that you cannot simply stereotype them all, however, when you start to analyse their behavioural, educatational, psychological and sociological traits and compare these to a control population of non-criminals there are notable differances.
Notwithstanding stereotypes, convicted persons have more mental and sociological disorders by a factor of 14 times upward, they have poorer education.
You will find that in truth, there are far more whiners, schemers, dumbasses, lowlifes, plain evil etc etc etc compared to the people in the workplace, and the clue is in the word “workplace”.
Look at employment levels among convicted persons and you will find it is orders of magnitude lower than those unconvicted persons.There are very real arguments to be put that being in full time employment is a significant indicator of prevalence of criminal behaviour.
Criminals are whiners, they are paranoid, both in the personal sense and also the mental health sense.
The causes of the mental problems are another matter for discussion, and often ends up being the ‘chicken and egg’ type argument.
If you want quotes about the mental health/education/socialogical profiles of criminals I can provide these in abundance, with lots of learned authority.
I assume that being an Attorney you would have little trouble in finding these for yourself.
But doesn’t a criminal record make it much harder to get a job in the first place ? And if someone is unemployed, aren’t they much more likely to be impelled by necessity to commit crimes, rather than by inclination ?
Well I can see you mean this in a lighthearted nature but the ugly truth is just because something you have done is stupid doesn’t mean it is above the law. The law is the law .
In my experience, the vast majority of criminals start their careers well before they are of working age.
A significant percentage have never felt the need to hold down work, and there begins the circular argument, its harder to find a job with a criminal record therefore there is only the option of more crime.
Criminals have two traits that are pretty much the baseline, the rest of their character then build on top.
They want lots of things, they are too lazy and/or impatient to work for them.
Instant gratification is the name of the game, but the reality is that if you think that purchasing happiness is going to fulfil you, then you are likely to be dissappointed, the latest shiny thing soon palls, and th enxt shiny thing must be obtained.
Few criminals genuinely want to work, they use the right words to get parole, but they come around again for familiar property crimes, back to jail.
Many criminals are unequipped for life outside jail in the longer run, their poor education and mental and social problems are just as likely to exclude them from work as their criminal past.
I have come across those who run their own small companies who have tried to give former jailbirds a working chance, you’ll not be too surprised to guess the result.
But few to none of your links deals with acts that warrant jail time, which is the point to which you were responding. I think we can stipulate that not all arrests are warranted.
I understood the original use (maybe misuse?) of the word “warrants” in
as warrants from the point of the view of government or basically same as “can result in”, not warrants in the sense of common sense or some sort of universal approach to justice.