If you are requesting stats to observe this then I believe you either need to start looking around more in how your society runs or you are sealioning[1] me.
This is like asking for proof that the sky is blue. Perfectly acceptable in an academic context where the laws of physics are being defined at an extremely technical level. However if you’re asking a question like this in the context of every day life, it’s difficult to believe that you are asking in good faith.
I'm asking in good faith, of course. You wrote "just observe how often", and "how often“ is measurable. So there must be a record. I don't observe much crimes at all in my everyday life. Likely my life is not a good sample, but it just to point out to the obvious fact that what you belive to be an obvious fact may not be an obvious fact, but a political bias instead
“How often” as used in colloquial English is not measurable because colloquial English is not a technical language and this isn’t a technical discussion.
Finding examples of the rich getting away with crimes that regular people do not get away with is a simple google search away which is why you come off as sealioning.
On the off chance that you are legitimately asking, here are a few examples
>"How often” as used in colloquial English is not measurable
So what "observe how often" means then in your colloquial English?
I legitimately asked about stats. On this forum I presume you know what it is, how it's different from anecdotes. And it makes your behavior look not particularly honest.
You could have sincerely answer: "I have no data, but I have a gut geeling/impression" - that would spare you from wiggling around, and claiming that English is not to express facts.
Let me be clear here then, “how often” for me is any time the law protects the rich at an extent that the rest of the citizenry do not get.
Did you ignore the links? The Johnson and Johnson heir is anecdata yea but the affluenza defense is an actual used in the court and accepted defense. I don’t need stats in this case when I can point to a single legal precedent
No it isn’t like asking for proof that the sky is blue. You are making an objectively false claim, that people toss it around all the time and/or you truly believe does not change that.
“Look how often” is a subjective English term people use to ask people to look at the situation and not an invitation to provide statistical analysis. Given that the rule of law is supposed to be applied equally I am pissed at even a single instance but here I provided you with both a link to a case where the protection due to their wealth was terrible in the magnitude of the protection and then a link to the legal defense admitted into court explicitly defining that they needed extra protection due to their wealth.
But let’s get to the heart of where I expect you to take this thread.
Is there any sort of evidence that you would accept that the rich get greater protection in our legal system? Or is it just not possible in your world view?
