tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948680.post7778635211811196631..comments2024-01-01T03:41:25.689-05:00Comments on A Life of Adventure: Crime School Is in SessionToddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04866183958358678898noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948680.post-42278518948522264612009-12-02T08:41:02.780-05:002009-12-02T08:41:02.780-05:00HN, I wish I could hear from the accused in these ...HN, I wish I could hear from the accused in these cases. As you know, I only get to hear testimony from witnesses because it's grand jury. I hear snippets of stories from this side or that, but never from the actual accused. I would love to hear it from their side as well. I am sure the story would change from the side of the accused as opposed to the side of the person who saw it happen, or the person who investigated it after the crime was committed. <br /><br />From what I gather, it isn't a conscious thing that gets a person to that point. I am guessing that people don't start out with running into a liquor store with a gun and cleaning out the register. They start off smaller than that. "I'll grab this DVD from a friend's house, they'll never notice it..." and then the next time, if it went unnoticed they might grab another DVD and maybe the $20 bill in the cookie jar. Then it moves on to things that are a little bit bigger every time, and there's a new justification every time. The justification stretches further and further... then before they know it, they're in a liquor store with a gun.<br /><br />This part of human nature is both fascinating and terrifying at the same time.BJ Knapphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02655733034615023371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5948680.post-26658769738925914832009-12-01T20:56:04.116-05:002009-12-01T20:56:04.116-05:00The other thing I've learned about people sinc...The other thing I've learned about people since working as a PD is that they all have their own stories about how they got to that point. <br /><br />It's all too easy to paint them as horrible, evil, diabolical - it's sometimes too hard for people to look at how it was that they got to where they're at. <br /><br />Who taught them that was the best way to get what they wanted? What education did they have access to? What role models?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com