Alex really didn't expect to encounter a thief in the lobby of the Rhodesia Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
What Alex didn't expect was that the thief was knocked to the ground just after he succeeded, and the police showed up in time. Then the wallet was lost and recovered, but Alex needed to go back to the police station with the police to make a record.
Alex and his wife happily got into the blue and white police car. It was not the latest Lord or the lower-priced Diesel, but a multi-purpose city car just launched by Nyasaland Heavy Industries. Off-road vehicles, this type of vehicle has a higher footprint than a sedan and has better passability. It also has greater horsepower and consumes more fuel. Although the riding comfort is not as good as that of a sedan, its viewing angle is worse than that of a sedan. In short, it is completely different from a sedan. A different brand new model.
"In fact, this was not the case in Los Angeles before. Crimes in Los Angeles were punished extremely severely. Depending on the value of the case, theft could lead to up to ten years in prison. However, after the end of the world war, more and more people came to southern Africa to try their luck.
More and more people are coming, and most of them have a bad reputation in their place of origin. They repeat their old tricks after coming to southern Africa. I hope this will not affect your mood." The police chief Qiao Shan who led the team was very polite and allowed him to live in Luo.
The tourists in Desia Hotel are rich and expensive, and the police in Nyasaland are very service-minded.
People who can travel abroad these days are not only wealthy, but their living standards are much better than those of the average middle class. This is why many people think that the British are very rich. In fact, there are also many poor people in the UK, but those poor people
Without the opportunity to go abroad, their situation is unknown to the outside world.
It cannot be said that the thief just now was also British, but he obviously chose the wrong place to commit the crime.
"Understood, there are many thieves and robbers in London, especially in winter, theft is very rampant." Alex could understand and accept that all cities have dark sides, and the same goes for Los Angeles, which looks like a flowery city on the surface.
"Why?" Qiao Shan was happy to learn about the situation of his colleagues in London through chatting.
"Because London turns into a foggy city in the winter, and you can't see anyone fifty meters away, which creates good conditions for thieves to commit crimes." Alex looked ugly. Every Londoner mentioned the winter in London.
Deeply disgusted.
Qiao Shan, who has never been to London, looked confused. The air quality in Nyasaland is very good. There is no air quality measurement these days. Otherwise, Los Angeles would have excellent air quality for at least 360 days out of 365 days a year.
The remaining five days must at least be good.
Arriving at the police station, the thief was taken to the interrogation room for interrogation. The person who took notes on Alex and his wife was a female police officer.
Alex and his wife were surprised to find that the proportion of female civilian staff in the police station was surprisingly high.
However, these female police officers are not easy to mess with. Many of them wear pistols at their waists. The policewoman who took notes on Alex and his wife was the one.
"Hello, my name is Yao Le. You can call me Yao. Please don't be nervous. We are just asking a few questions. Do you need some water?" Yao Le's smile was very friendly.
Alex thought that the police station only provided ice water in the customary sense, but he did not expect that the police station also provided coffee and black tea.
So Alex chose coffee, and Alex's wife chose black tea.
"Then let's get started. Can you tell me what happened specifically?" Yao Le opened the record book and Alex took a casual glance at it. It turned out to be beautiful calligraphy.
English actually has calligraphy, and it looks quite beautiful, just like painting.
Alex was immediately in awe. There were very few educated women in this era, and even fewer educated women became police officers.
"We just arrived in Los Angeles this morning, and we were about to go downstairs to make purchases, and then we met the thief -" Alex briefly described the process. In fact, there was nothing much to say about the process. Alex hadn't even reacted yet. The thief
It has already been obtained.
"Mr. Alex, it's inconvenient to ask how much money is in your wallet? We have to convict the thief based on the amount stolen." Yao Le respects Alex's privacy. This is mainly because many Chinese care about money.
Aren't you showing off?
"I have a check and some cash in my wallet. The check is about 500 pounds, and the cash may be more than 30 pounds. I can't remember clearly." Alex is not afraid of revealing himself. More than 500 pounds is indeed a lot of money, and it is ordinary.
It takes several years for a person to make money.
Yao Le lowered his head and took notes carefully. Alex couldn't hold it back anymore and asked: "Officer, what kind of punishment might that thief receive?"
"It depends on the judge's sentencing, but more than five hundred pounds is a huge amount, and the sentence may start at ten years." Yao Le is only responsible for the transcripts, and the trial is the responsibility of the judge.
There are two types of courts in Southern Africa. One is a formal court where the court follows regular procedures, and the other is a temporary court that has little impact on cases with low value. Criminal acts such as theft are tried by temporary courts, with one judge and one record.
With the addition of a temporary jury, a case can be heard very quickly in just ten minutes.
As for whether such a speedy trial will lead to unjust, false and wrongful convictions, no one cares about this. In southern Africa, criminals have no individual rights.
"Ten years!" Alex and his wife looked at each other. Ten years was too long a sentence. If this was the result, the young man's life might be ruined.
"Is it too long? We always have to give those people a chance to repent." Alex is really not a Virgin. He does not understand the laws of southern Africa.
"Repent? Do you mean an apology? I think the victim does not need an apology from the criminal. The victim should want to see the criminal accept the punishment he deserves. Even if the punishment seems harsher, this is the price of violating the law.
"The court is not a vegetable market and cannot be bargained for." Yao Le's words represent the mainstream thinking in southern Africa. Human rights and criminals' human rights must be protected. How to protect the rights of victims? How to protect those who obey the law?
A law-abiding person?
This is also the reason why lawyers in southern Africa are not taken seriously. No matter how high the level of lawyers is, they will not play a big role in the court's sentencing. The biggest role of the bar association is to formulate relevant laws and improve the ambiguity of the law.
Defend criminals.
In recent years, the laws enacted in southern Africa have become more and more biased towards the principle of reciprocity.
For example, the per capita income in Southern Africa is about 50 rand, so if the amount involved in the theft reaches 50 rand, the criminal will be sentenced to about one year in prison.
By analogy, 100 rand lasts two years, 150 rand three years, and 500 rand probably starts with ten years.
If it is robbery, the starting sentence is ten years, then fifty rand plus one year.
If the crime rises to the level of murder, it must be divided into several different situations. If it is malicious first-degree murder, then it must be a non-negotiable death penalty, because the murder illegally deprives others of their lives, so you have to pay with your life.
cost.
Alex cannot understand this kind of thinking. In Alex's mind, the law can also be discounted, otherwise the status and fees of British barristers would not be so high.
This is even more perverted in the United States. American law is simply a child's play in the face of power. Think about Jeffrey Epstein who committed suicide in prison. When Epstein committed suicide, all the surveillance in the prison failed to work properly; the prison guards were overwhelmed by manpower.
Inadequately, the inspection was inexplicably terminated; and the time of the prison guards' changing of the guard actually became a state secret and was not disclosed to the media. Perhaps the U.S. Department of Justice was afraid that criminals would use this to escape.
Even more coincidentally, before his death, Epstein told prison guards and other inmates that he was particularly worried that someone was going to kill him. Epstein therefore attempted suicide in July because according to regulations, suspects with suicidal tendencies must share a room with two persons.
In order to monitor each other, but in early August, Epstein's cellmate was changed, and the new cellmate did not move in until Epstein's death.
It is said, it is said that people who have conflicts with a certain president of the United States and the first lady and former secretary of state will commit suicide inexplicably.
For example, Vincent Foster, the president's lawyer, once revealed to the media after Vincent Foster left Clinton that he was planning to write a book exposing a certain president's dirty money and power dealings.
On the day of the interview, Vincent committed suicide in the park.
Another example is McFlynn, a well-known writer who exposed the inside story of a certain presidential foundation. He also committed suicide at home after publishing a related article.
In addition, there was John Ashe, a U.S. official at the United Nations, who was directly shot and killed. On the same day, he was about to appear in court to testify that a certain president bribed him.
There was also Seth Rich, the data center director of the Democratic National Committee who first broke the news to Assange. He died in a well-planned robbery. After the gunman shot Seth Rich, he did not take Seth Rich away.
wallet.
After reading these examples, you should have a deeper understanding of American justice.
Relatively speaking, the Nyasaland police were very warm. After completing the transcript, the police station sent a car to take Alex and his wife back to the Rhodesia Hotel, and also gave Alex and his wife a small gift.
A postcard with the police station's phone number printed on it.
Behind the postcard are some things you should know when traveling in Nyasaland.
Back at the Rhodesia Hotel, Alex and his wife still felt incredible. The impression that Nyasaland left on Alex and his wife before was all reported in newspapers, and now it is being shown more and more concretely in Alex and his wife.
In front of Mr. and Mrs. Max.
Then shopping in Itno became a completely happy trip.
If there's something one bag can't solve, two.
Mrs. Alex was completely immersed in the pleasure brought by these words.
Mr. Alex's request was relatively simple, but when he saw the dazzling array of watches, Alex couldn't help but feel his inner desire.
Alas, more than five hundred pounds is really not much, and it is not enough to spend——
:After writing this chapter, I suddenly realized a very serious problem. Should I commit suicide tomorrow? Brothers, help me testify. If I die tomorrow, it must be that I have poked the former president’s sore spot. I should.
It’s not that serious. I’ve long been shameless. What can you do——