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I mean, empathy for a criminal is ensuring they have their day in court. Free counsel if they can’t afford. Innocent until proven guilty.

But their rights can’t trump victims, that’s not justice. Like someone else mentioned prop 47 was a bad idea.

>>xivzgr+(OP)
> empathy for a criminal is ensuring they have their day in court. Free counsel if they can’t afford. Innocent until proven guilty

That's not empathy. Empathy is being sympathetic to someone based on how similar they are to you. You're talking about much older, less relative concepts, such as equality under the law and limits on what the state can do to people.