The push for tougher scrap metal laws in Michigan

[astongraham]

I mean, okay, pass a law, but I don't expect much from a law if the intent is for it to be applied in Detroit. Cocaine is already illegal; burglary is already illegal. These laws don't seem to create much of an impediment. Oddly enough, criminals do not feel compelled to obey laws.

All that you said is true, but people aren't going to regulates businesses to purchase cocaine, nor are they using businesses to commit other crimes that u mentioned. All the new regulations would do is create a log of who is turning in these scrap metals, create a wait time of 24 hours to collect their monies, and make these businesses accountable for paying someone for turning in a manhole cover and expecting to get that cash immediately.
No one is trying to force drug dealers to create logs of who they are selling to, or make a 1 day wait period for drug users to get their smack. This industry is already regulated, therefore they can be shuttered for breaking the law. Anyone that is legitimately scrapping can wait 24 hours to get their pay. If a legitimate business owner wants to scrap excess material from a job site, he or she wait 24hours to get paid, unless that business owner has a crack problem and really needs that money then and there. People that use scrapping as a way of survival is gonna have to suck it up and deal with it, people are inconvenienced all the time, why are they any different?
This is about regulated licensed businesses, not regulating cocaine dealers
I will also say that these laws work in every other community outside Michigan that they have been implemented.