Will raising fines deter vacant building break-ins?

Second City Cop comments on Ald. James Balcer’s proposal to “deter homeless people, drug addicts, prostitutes, gang members and others from breaking into the buildings by increasing to $200 the fines they could face:”

They’ll all be paralyzed into inactivity based on a $200 fine!!! Nevermind that the homeless have no money, the dope addicts spend anything they get, the whores are turning tricks there to get money, the gang members don’t really care since they’ll beat the case in court and the scrappers will just break into the next house if they get fined at all.

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