[geodel]

What is double standard? Who do you want to put in jail for this: front line employee? legal guy? finance guy? CEO? or all of them? Or is it just like "Some one need to go to jail, I just don't know or care who that will be and I do not have time for that"

So as per example your example the guy who filed the report be sent to jail even though he was following company policy, though in this case made a mistake. How it compares to cash register guy who was clearly stealing.

[throw__away7391]

How about the person responsible for instituting this policy along with anyone who approved it?

[iudqnolq]

They continued the practice after it was reported in the newspaper. It's reasonable to assume senior mgmt discussed major negative coverage of their company. That means the practice continued after senior mgmt was aware of it. That makes it their responsibility.

What should they have done instead? First, inform every employee of a new temporary policy that any report to the police about a customer purely about the theft of a car the customer had rented now has to be approved by a senior lawyer. Second, figure out the scope of the problem and how to fix it. Third, replace that unpleasant temporary policy with something more tailored once you understand what went wrong.

[Sakos]

There's likely a paper trail of various people talking about this policy and what to do about it. Based on that, directly fine or imprison the people responsible for decisions about the policy that lead to people being falsely imprisoned. It's really not that hard.

It's ridiculous that corporations can always absolve themselves and their executives of responsibility because "well, who would we punish" or equally spurious arguments.

[FpUser]

>"Who do you want to put in jail for this" - persons who allowed to put people in jail based on unconfirmed report. If I as a person go and complain to police that corporation stole money from me they would not just go and arrest the board / CEO.