Police officer imprisoned for sex crimes w/ minors

[Alan C.]

[California] Long Beach police officer sentenced to 11 yrs for sex crimes w/ minors

A Long Beach police officer has been sentenced to
11 years and eight months in state prison for sex crimes involving
underage girls.

Noe Yanez, 40, was charged in May 2012 on 6 counts of sex-related crimes.

During
a preliminary hearing Friday, Yanez plead guilty to one count each of
forcible rape, meeting a minor for lewd purposes, using a minor for sex
acts, possession of child pornography, and two counts of false
imprisonment by fraud or deceit.

He was sentenced to 11 years
and eight months in state prison immediately following his guilty plea.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen also ordered Yanez to
register as a sex offender.

The former officer was fired by the
Long Beach Police Department last June. The allegations involving five
underage girls spanned from 2008 until shortly before he was charged in
May 2012.

[Rick Horton]

 

What do you think about men in blue outfits arresting him, then men in black robes sentencing him to 11 years in prison?  Is there a proper alternative for this scenario, and if so, what? This is a pretty good opportunity to give a position on something like this, and how this would be handled in a voluntaryist community. 

[Alan C.]

Given the current framework (the displacement of market justice by State-monopoly), the officer needed to be separated from civil society and confined because he posed a menace.

In a voluntary society, it's doubtful that the market would tolerate "enforcers" cruising neighborhoods in seach of victims to violate or transients to pulverize. Criminality would be dealt with through a system of reputation and restitution. If you're asking me to speculate on how it might actually look, I think it would be outlawry without prisons.

Under State-monopoly, violations perpetrated against victims are compounded by the fact that they are compelled to finance the incarceration of the aggressor. Murray Rothbard made this observation in The Ethics of Liberty.