This king of ‘law’ is another brick in a totalitarian wall being constructed by liberal elites.
They’re also the same people when faced with a REAL criminal do everything they can to free him, reduce a sentence, or half way house them before their time.
Liberal elites don’t give a damn about crime - it’s control they’re after ... and not even ‘control’ of criminals - but of citizens.
Laws like this sound good on the surface, but we know who’s behind them - as our founding fathers also knew...
You're constructing a monolith where one doesn't exist. Bloomberg is a law-and-order liberal. Judge Scheindlin is a must not be too hard on the criminals liberal. Bloomberg favors stop-and-frisk. Scheindlin opposes it. Slate opposes it. Heck - most liberals and minorities around the country oppose stop-and-frisk. Because the net result is that too many minority criminals end up in prison instead of earning an honest living on the streets by dealing drugs, stealing from and mugging people. Liberals in this country aren't totalitarians - they're let-it-all-hang-out hippies who miss the 60's or young 'uns who wish they had been teenagers during the 60's (while getting high draft numbers, of course).