Stiffer Penalties Don't Do Anything

A new federal law aimed at curbing auto theft and including stiffer penalties for car thieves has passed.

The Criminal Code has been amended making auto theft a separate crime punishable by up to a decade in prison, and a mandatory minimum sentence of six months in jail upon a third conviction.

Criminals already don't obey the law, so why would stiffer penalties make a difference? The answer, it won't. This is just more showboating by politicians trying to look like they are dong something. They don't fool me.