Within the past month, we have the maiming and murdering of innocent young women by career criminals with large numbers of arrests and incarcerations. It is increasingly obvious that turnstile injustice is rewarding the career criminal and punishing his or her victims. Why is this allowed by the justice system and why does it not result in the most serious of consequences for the career criminal?
It appears that those who run the justice system have made calculated policy decisions to minimize incarceration costs and dump repeat criminals onto the streets of communities around America. This approach to crime is particularly noticeable in the major cities. (“Defund the police” is the motto and some city leaders have suggested that replacing police with social workers is a better use of scarce resources and funds.)
The new mayor of New York City has suggested that not only should the police be replaced with social workers but that incarceration should be eliminated altogether. Essentially, this “defund the police and incarceration” movement means that city leaders will dump any and all local crime back onto the streets. (These cuts to the police and incarceration budget will be used to reward welfare recipient voters who are expected to ignore personal safety costs and adjust their public behavior to minimize criminal attacks. The hope of these criminal appeasement politicians is that by leaving the career criminals free to roam, they will focus primarily on property crimes and avoid more serious criminal behavior.)
What constitutes acceptable criminal behavior? There is no question that crime statistics have been rigged to make all crimes appear less of a problem. For example, muggings that don’t injury or maim are reduced from felonies to misdemeanors. There is almost no prosecution of misdemeanors except when large funds are involved or it is politically expedient to help damage a political opponent. (The various attacks on President Trump prior to the election smack of this politicization, aka, lawfare.)
Serious crimes like rape (is that now a property crime?), maiming and murder are not treated seriously.
Political and judicial leaders have tried to hide felonies by reductions in charges and, therefore, reduced incarceration. The turnstile of “no bail needed” means that misdemeanors and felonies are all lumped together in a never ending cycle of career criminals perverting the system.
Good Samaritan civic acts are discouraged or punished, leaving people less apt to try to help the victim of a crime or even report that a crime has occurred. This is a very convenient way of reducing the crime rate. (The Good Samaritan arrest and trial of Daniel Penny is a prime of example of this type of situation
All too often, judges refer to career criminals as mentally disturbed or downtrodden even when the courts know that their records reflect a calculated pattern of continuous antisocial behavior. In other words, bums are no longer bums but just a different class of victims. (See the judicial and political excuses to the murder of Iryna Zarutska.)
With these types of reactions to even the most serious crimes, it is no surprise that some of these turnstile career criminals aren’t worried about incarceration. In too many criminal trials, judges will call a career criminal naughty and release them with the admonition “now don’t you be a bad boy again” knowing full well there will be a next crime. (And, of course, you don’t incarcerate naughty boys and girls.)
A portion of the most violent criminals have found that prison gives them a better lifestyle than freedom on their home turf. (There is a recent case in Chicago where a young woman, Bethany McGee. was lit on fire and severely injured by a career criminal. This thug not only admitted the crime but was gleeful that he was going back to prison where food, clothing, shelter, recreation, healthcare, and education were free. His only loss, therefore, was the freedom to walk about in a society which he likely feared and despised.)
There is no risk of major or final loss to the career criminal. Reward for bad behavior, not punishment for bad behavior, is overwhelmingly favored within the judicial and political systems. Realistically, the only real punishment available for the worst of the worst is the death penalty. (When that is off the table, prison is more like a highly controlled campus filled with all kinds of fun and games. Further, Life without Parole doesn’t necessarily mean incarceration for life.)
It is time to bring back the expedited death penalty. Let’s stop making it easy for those who maim and murder to escape justice.
Note: The newly elected Governor of Virginia, a Democrat, has indicated that one of her priorities is to restore voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences. The last time the Democrats were in power, they eliminated the death penalty. All this has done, or will do, is further empower the worst of the worst. (You also have to wonder why democrats in power are silent when it comes to supporting the maimed or helping the families of the murder victims.)
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Perhaps the “doctor” could tell us why Trump had an MRI “of my head.”
Meanwhile, here’s the answer. As we all know, for the past six months, photos of Trump have shown — and continue to show — both his right and left hands showing clear evidence of regular IV insertions — heavy makeup on the hand, BandAids covering the IV site. And, no, in spite of White House Press Secretary’s lies, this is not caused by too much hand-shaking.
Notice the Band-Aid and make-up on his right hand. Trump is in early stages of Alzheimer’s and he is receiving regular infusions of two drugs called donanemab and lecanemab which are given via intravenous infusion every 1-4 weeks for Alzheimer’s. The treatment requires regular monitoring with brain MRI scans to ensure the medication is not causing bleeds in the brain.
And that, folks, is why Trump had an MRI of his head and why he will continue to have cerebral MRIs — to ensure his Alzheimer’s meds are not causing cerebral hemorrhages.
This is not something eyeglass salesmen are familiar with.
So that what Biden was trying to hide. Thanks for the info.
Nothing to do with Biden. Nothing at all.
Perhaps while we are executing people, we could do something about the exorbitant markup on eyeglass frames.
The price markup on eyeglass frames ranges from 250% to over 1000%, with the average markup being around 250%.
We should go “bang to hang” in 60 days or less. The death penalty should be applied because it is just, but it would be even more effective if it was applied quickly. When people are executed 5 years+ after their crime, the “deterrence” aspect of the death penalty is lost. That said, what our justice system really needs to fix criminals is CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. We need Singaporean style caning or other physically painful punishments to deter crime.
Or maybe we could shorten the time delay from 60 days until the length of time it takes to find a rope and tall pine tree — you know, the way we used to treat n#####s in Mississippi — no need for a trial, just an accusation and the accused is executed. Save the time and expense of a trial.
Or maybe you could check The Innocence Project that has freed over 250 convicted murderers who were wrongly convicted and who were, IN FACT, innocent.
I checked the innocence project. I suspect you haven’t. Of those innocent, almost all the court cases were thrown out because of procedural error not because of guilt or innocence. If I remember, there was one case where guilt or innocence was the actual issue and the result was debatable – thus innocent because guilt was not proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. I worked with the police on a number of cases where murder was obvious but the evidence was insufficient to pinpoint a suspect. Guys like Mr Fixit are really quite ignorant because they put agenda before facts.
“. . . procedural errors . . . ” Such as prosecutors withholding exculpatory evidence. Such as witnesses later recanting their testimony. Details matter.
You are making the point. We are so tied up by procedure that guilt or innocence doesn’t matter. I suggest you actually look at each of the cases and simply look at guilt or innocence.
In colonial times the sentence was carried out nominally 10 days after conviction. This gave the guilty time to et his or her affairs in order before they were hung in public.
Unfortunately, this article applies to other classes of criminals. Terrorists, cartels and gangs, and leftist nut cases come to mind.