04-18-2018, 04:30 PM
(04-18-2018, 04:14 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: First time, four years, out in two. For repeat offenders add three years per instance. For knock knock style burglars treat the number of offenses as one arrest for terms of recidivism, have them serve time consecutively. Also, add criminal conspiracy if there is any evidence of prior planning such as a police scanner in the getaway car. I'd even expand this to include evidence such as using an expensive rental car (to avoid attracting attention in the higher end neighborhoods these crimes are commonly committed in) during the commission of the crimes. I'd also add gang enhancements if any of the participants are documented gang members as these crews always have to kick up a certain percentage to either a street gang or their crew boss.
Not nearly as long as the disruption to the victim isn't nearly as severe. Keep the terms as is. Since you mentioned auto burg, not auto theft, you're looking at replacing a window or door lock and whatever property you left in the car, commonly a cell phone. Storage shed again contains almost no risk of escalation and even less disruption to the victim than the auto burg. A closed business follows the same pattern. While it is certainly disruptive to the owner, they don't reside there. In all the above for-instances their feeling of safety in their home hasn't been ripped from them and they are almost certainly insured for whatever is stolen (except for the storage shed example). It's interesting you bring this up though, because the legal marijuana dispensaries here are getting hit hard both burg and armed robbery wise.
Yea, we already got this covered. 3rd degree burglary is 1-5 years and 2nd degree is 2-8. All your add ons create more issues for prosecution than helping them. If a prosecutor has to prove pre planning then a defense attorney can poke a hole in it. If they have to try and insinuate what that rental car was the whole case can collapse around it. If they have to prove gang ties and it's relation to the crime then that becomes a sideshow derailing the case.
Burglary as written now is easy to prosecute and tend to be open and close cases at the lowest level that you hate so much. The reason you want to leave it there is because it is so easy to put them away for some time at least. You make the burden of proof higher and some of these guys will start walking and prosecutors will just end up cutting deals anyways.
