re: #75 TedStriker

“Possession of tools in furtherance of a crime”

It’s how the cops can pile on charges against people having stuff like lock picking tools, even if there’s no evidence those “tools” were even used.

Here’s the thing: Most bullshit charges that we get outraged over these days come from these stupid little laws that everyone thought were common sense when they were passed. “Of course people should be punished more for having lock picks if they’re committing a burglary, that means it’s willful.” Only it’s never worded so precisely, and the people in power are very good at using any vagueness in such laws to stretch them far beyond their original intent. It’s important, when looking at a piece of legislation, not to think of how it ought to be used, but how an extremely motivated bad actor in a position of power would use it.