03-06-2010, 12:01 PM
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(03-06-2010, 11:28 AM)Twilla Wrote: You're all right, I apologize for trying to see how it's more cost effective for the county to issue warrants and have a cop tied up issuing the ticket etc for a $10 DVD... because that's about what the thing is actually worth... and then have the court involved with all the various clerks with the time spent on the necessary paperwork that was ultimately presented to a judge. Multiply that by all the other missing items from the library and you're looking at tens of thousands of dollars worth of man hours to recover a few hundred dollars worth of assets.
Silly me.
it goes much deeper than this single incident.
If the CD was laying in the seat of your car and it was stolen would you then think that the theif should be caught? would you call the police?
what if they broke into your house and stole a single DVD, would you think that the theft was to small to pursue?
Its easy to seperate public property from your own tangible goods, but in reality they are one and the same.
its a millions of dollars cost to the tax payers each year, with no prosecutions that number would sky rocket.
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
— Thomas Hardy
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