Most people have probably encountered something similar in their Facebook feed:
A surveillance photo of a suspected thief – often accompanied by a text in which the sender is desperately looking for the person in the photo. Maybe they’ll even give away a reward to those who can come up with more information. The notice spreads with the speed of lightning.
It is easy to get involved in the frustration, and even though the act may at first seem relatively innocent, it is a serious breach of our legal society.
But the action is usually an expression of frustration, which we must take seriously: Namely, a distrust of our system.
This week Nordjyske was able to tell how four employees at Industrivejens Maskiner ApS in Nørresundby have been charged with illegal trespassing. The charge comes after the employees found two of their skid steer loaders that had been stolen from a construction site.
The theft was reported to the North Jutland Police, but since the police did not have the resources to look for the machines without specific tips, the director and his employees chose to contribute to the investigation themselves, and therefore they turned up at the country property where they had come across the stolen skid steers.
Nordjyske has also recently told about Nikolaj Hansen, who has been subjected to a burglary in his private home, and who has subsequently shared a surveillance video on Facebook and raffled off a reward of 10,000 kroner to whoever can tell who the suspected thieves are. However, he has neither reported the theft to the police nor the insurance company.
The two cases differ significantly from each other, but there is nevertheless an underlying common denominator. An urge to take action yourself.
It is easy to understand the urge and the feeling of frustration and powerlessness that one must be left with as a victim of such crimes.
But there is a set of common rules of the game that we must and must acknowledge. Because it is our public system which must solve crimes and also impose punishment.
When private individuals take over the roles, it can often end up being the emotions that take over.
Therefore, you also run the risk of doing something that is not on par with the crime or violation that the person you hang out with on Facebook, for example, has actually committed.
It undermines our legal society and creates conditions reminiscent of the Wild West when people take the law into their own hands – especially with the help of social media.
But if there is no trust in the legal system, then we tend to resolve conflicts in other ways.
And that part must be taken seriously. Because it is too easy to point fingers at the people who choose to take matters into their own hands if they have encountered a system that leaves them without adequate help.
2024-03-04 07:15:15
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