Posted on 10/21/2011 1:28:46 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
Two drug-related police scandals inadvertently have helped The City prepare for an influx of inmates under the state’s recently implemented prison realignment plan.
The inmate population at San Francisco’s jails dropped sharply in early 2010 after the Police Department’s drug lab scandal came to light and again this year after allegations began surfacing about police misconduct during drug raids at residential hotels, Sheriff’s Department statistics show.
By Oct. 3, when courts began redirecting prisoners convicted of minor offenses to county jails instead of state prisons, San Francisco jails were running at just 60 percent of capacity.
“The crime lab fiasco, which has led to what appears to be far fewer prosecutions and possibly fewer arrests for minor drug offenses, has definitely contributed to a lowering of the county jail population,” Sheriff Michael Hennessey said. He said he hasn’t examined the effect of the more recent scandal.
And ironically, all those empty beds at the jail are now serving The City well as it prepares to reabsorb hundreds of inmates convicted of nonviolent, nonserious and nonsex offenses.
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I have added this to the political humor classification, as you should get a good laugh when you read it.
I wonder if San Francisco can have the "good fortune" of having a police department so incompetent that they could entirely empty the new jail recently built?
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