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Comment Re: We're in the group (Score 1) 209

A coworker was bragging to us how even in elementrary school he and his friends would "take a girl behind the bushes" with multiple targets. Look that phrase up. Maybe parents don't want their kids subjected to thugs, gangsters, rapists, thieves, junkies in training. "Protection from the world" you mock, yet we have armed forces and police.

Comment Re:Computer crimes are over penalized (Score 1) 56

Blacks are far less common in Germany hence the ethnic question is quite different. "Migration background" is the closest German equivalent. And yes, the outcome can be different. For example in one such case - the perpetrator will probably be sent to Turkey after he was sentenced to 8 years for reckless driving murder (only 8 years for murder because people under 21 are not considered adults in the court) since he is a German born Turkish citizen.
Another thing that makes comparisons difficult is that Germany is a civil law country so legal precedence is not binding and it is difficult to say whether the judge declined to sentence a reckless driver for murder as the public prosecutor demanded due to the problem you mention or simply because the judge is old school which was much more lenient in this regard.

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