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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cplradar, post: 8005927, member: 108985&quot;]The light sentences for theft, I agree, is part of the problem.&nbsp; Additionally, most theft is not even prosecutable in NYC, because the police won&#039;t prosecute shoplifting less than $400 because the courts won&#039;t prosecute.&nbsp; It has reached a point where retailers won&#039;t report the crimes (and then advocates use that as an excuse to prove that such crimes don&#039;t exist which makes one sick to their stomach).</p><p><br /></p><p>The same is true of home break ins.&nbsp; They just don&#039;t get enough traction in the legal system, with a court system overwhelmed with cases and a dwindling amount of prison space.&nbsp; One of the things that numismatic organizations need to do is to push for legislation that&nbsp; promotes public safety and recognizes numismatic crime as a special case worthy of more pronounced law enforcement and resources.&nbsp; Police reports need to mandate that they include all available information of collections.&nbsp; We need uniform criminal penalties since coins are commonly traded on line.&nbsp; We need to strengthen postal and wire theft so that the commerce in coins is more secure... etc etc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Never the less, that doesn&#039;t make pawnshops any less guilty in the trade of stolen coins, and stolen goods.&nbsp; And that some, if not many, pawn dealers are honest, that doesn&#039;t mean that the trade itself is not damaging, because it is.&nbsp; Many, if not most, pawnshops are nothing more than legal fencing operations, especially in the ghetto.&nbsp; Whatever resources the police departments have, they are quickly overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stolen goods that these establishments deal in.&nbsp; Existing law just creates a legal safe harbor for stolen property to be sold, and there is little or nothing the cops can realistically be expected to do about it.&nbsp; They would need an entire division just to deal with pawn brokers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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