Comment by olliej

Oh yeah the law has all sorts of things to increase charges.

In some jurisdictions having a crowbar while “committing a crime” turns the crowbar into a burglary tool. Better yet: having a burglary tool can count as evidence you were committing a crime (see an interesting bit of logic there?)

Or CA using possession of condoms as evidence women were sex workers. Immediately resulting in a reduction in use of protection (remember the anti-prostitution laws are all in the interests of “public safety”). Literally the interpretation of reality chosen was one where if a woman in a specific location had a condom they were automatically a sex worker, carrying evidence of sex work.