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...industrial polluters. Libertarians see polluters in the same category as muggers and rapists. A person who pollutes the air another breathes is just as forceful and violent as a mugger who breaks another man's leg. Friedman maintains solid support of all civil liberties and solid opposition to all victimless crime laws. He is against the draft, military intervention, aid to Saigon, and the very existence...
...appear soft." What works is what matters. Northwestern's Inbau, for instance, favors stiffened sentences and reduction of technical legal defenses, but also points out that some potentially effective "soft" approaches have not been tried-notably, enforced gun-control laws and elimination of police responsibility for some "victimless" crimes like gambling and vice. Inbau credits the Administration with having created a feeling that something can be done about crime. But for precisely that reason, whoever is President next January is going to have to do a great deal more...
...Douglas also observed in a footnote that the floods of misdemeanor cases might be reduced considerably if, as many experts have recommended, officials stopped prosecuting perpetrators of so-called victimless crimes such as drunkenness, narcotics addiction and vagrancy...
What can be done? The obvious answer is to erase some laws from the books. So-called "victimless" crimes like public intoxication, for example, devour court time across the country. Drug offenses account for 51% of all serious criminal cases in Los Angeles. If legislators repealed penalties for crimes like gambling and pot-smoking, the courts could obviously focus on the major crimes they now handle so badly...