All fines should be at least as much as was profited from the crime.
Fines should scale with wealth. If zuckerberg gets a speeding ticket, he should have to pay millions. Bonus: this might encourage cops to go after rich people instead of poor.
at least in my country many fines are given as “day fines” that is calculated as a days wage minus what is absolutely essential for survival so if you are poor the fines can be very small and for the rich 100k speeding ticket can and has happened.
All fines should be at least as much as was profited from the crime.
Fines should scale with wealth. If zuckerberg gets a speeding ticket, he should have to pay millions. Bonus: this might encourage cops to go after rich people instead of poor.
No no.
All revenue from the crime should be forfeit, and redistributed to the victims. This is not the penalty for the crime, it’s just restitution.
Then a fine of some amount should be paid, as the actual penalty for the crime.
at least in my country many fines are given as “day fines” that is calculated as a days wage minus what is absolutely essential for survival so if you are poor the fines can be very small and for the rich 100k speeding ticket can and has happened.
Is it Switzerland?
“go after rich people” - I don’t think you grasp why the cops exist.
Sure, but this isn’t really relevant to the OP because it’s not about a fine coming from law enforcement, it’s a lawsuit being settled.