Posted on 10/31/2014 8:16:16 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
EYEWITNESS NEWS spent weeks analyzing more than 1,800 cases across Minnesota - murders, robberies, burglaries, and assaults, all involving firearms, as well as many cases of previously convicted felons being caught with guns. In more than half of such cases, the convicted felon received less than the minimum sentence. And whether they spent any time in prison varied greatly from judge to judge and courtroom to courtroom. Daylight was beginning to dwindle. Leaves were beginning to litter the landscape. Fall was beginning to descend on Folwell Park. "This is where kids come. This is their sanctuary," said John Joyce, who coaches a youth soccer team at Folwell Park. It was Oct. 3, 2012, the day a north Minneapolis safe haven became a crime scene. "All it takes is one kid to get hurt and it destroys an entire park - an entire community," Joyce said.
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Blame it on plea bargaining. Prosecutors offer plea bargains to keep the conveyor belt running.
MPLS would never agree with Project Exile.
It’s simply a RACIAL THING in the cities. As long as you have judges that continue to equate jail with ‘slavery’, the youths simply will not get punished. It got SO BAD in New Orleans, that Jindal had to use state judges to take over cases.
That is the reason that there are MANDATORY sentencing laws in many jurisdictions and why this FReeper supports those laws, unlike many others on this site.
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