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Liberal_in_LA (39,444 posts)

Be more respectful and call him or her "the person who stole my bicycle" rather than a "criminal"
   
Is it wrong to call someone who steals a "criminal"?

In a recent thread on NextDoor, a group of neighbors living in the Noe Valley-Glen Park area debated whether labeling a person who commits petty theft as a "criminal" is offensive.

In the site's Crime and Safety area, where residents share strategies for fighting crime, Malkia Cyril asked her Noe Valley neighbors to stop using the label because it shows lack of empathy and understanding.

Cyril suggested that instead of calling the thief who took the bicycle from your garage a criminal, you should be more respectful and call him or her "the person who stole my bicycle."

"I that people who commit property crimes are human and deserved to be referred to in terms that acknowledge that," Cyril, who's the executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, writes in the thread

 

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Political-correctness-San-Francisco-criminal-6598509.php 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027304368

[SVPete]

"I that people who commit property crimes are human and deserved to be referred to in terms that acknowledge that," Cyril, who's the executive director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, writes in the thread

Noe Valley and Glen Park are adjoining neighborhoods in SF, across the bay from Oakland. So what's up with the head of an Oakland-based (?racial-?)grievance-group shoving his nose into this already stupid discussion?

A criminal is some one who committed a crime. So, yeah some one who stole a bicycle is a criminal. And even under CA's recent law change in which the value threshold for felony theft was bumped up to $900, the higher-end off-the-shelf bikes one can buy at Sports Basement or a bicycle shop can be north of $5000! If the Noe Valley people want criminals treated sensitively, maybe SFPD can borrow some fur-lined handcuffs from the neighboring Castro District when they arrest bike thieves and such in Noe Valley!

  Those people are so @#$%ing moronic!

[USA4ME]

morningfog

8. Technically, there is no criminal until a conviction.
 
The person is accused of committing a crime. They are any number of reasons why the person while (sic) took the bike may have not even committed a crime.

 

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[SVPete]

morningfog

8. Technically, there is no criminal until a conviction.
 
The person is accused of committing a crime. They are any number of reasons why the person while (sic) took the bike may have not even committed a crime.

 

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The aptly self-named morningfog doesn't realize that while prosecutors and police must use the "alleged ______" shtick, and "news" media sources use it (unless the accused is a conservative or an R), even after a conviction, ordinary citizens may use "criminal" freely, up to but not past the point of slander.

[obumazombie]

Something Rush said many many moons ago(that's native American lingo)..."It's style over substance."

[Duke Nukum]

Well, if they are liberals they are criminals, even if they have only stolen by electing fellow liberals to pull off the heists for them, so this is not surprising.

[jb2u11]

Think of the time a liberal must spend trying to wrap their pee little brains around all of this PC crap.  It sure makes them fun to watch, like animals in a zoo!

[thundley4]

morningfog

8. Technically, there is no criminal until a conviction.
 
The person is accused of committing a crime. They are any number of reasons why the person while (sic) took the bike may have not even committed a crime.

George Zimmerman is not a criminal. President Bush is not a criminal. Dick Cheney is not a criminal. People that commit mass murder, and then are killed in a shootout or commit suicide are not criminals because they are never tried and convicted.