Posted on 08/18/2015 7:51:37 PM PDT by seacapn
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) -
The second person charged in the shooting death of Susan McDonald has a criminal rap sheet dating back to 1997.
Andre Bowen, 36, is charged with first-degree murder, in addition to Anthony Olivo, who was previously charged.
McDonald was shot and killed on August 1 outside of a friend's home in the 8400 block of Bazemore Road in Cordova.
In 2005, Bowen was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for a shooting. He was sentenced in 2008 and while in jail awaiting that sentencing, he was charged with simple assault for fighting with an inmate.
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We need to watch out when people (some of whom claim to speak for "the right") talk about "criminal sentencing reform," because what they often mean in practice is going softer on VIOLENT crime. The effect being that repeat criminals like the ones in this case are free to continue ravaging not only their own communities, but anywhere within a quick drive.
The problems in this country go much deeper than illegal immigration, and they all need to be addressed now
This is truly bizarre...he (Andre Bowen) should NEVER have been on the streets, period! how much time do you usually do for voluntary manslaughter? I would guess at least 10 years or thereabouts...what’s with the “federal detainer” as well...is he an illegal immigrant? He was sentenced in 2008 and then “paroled”? I thought in most states parole has been restricted such that criminals must serve at least 85% of their sentences before parole eligibility, plus he was violent in prison! WHY was he not classified as a “CAREER CRIMINAL”????
A 36-year-old with an 18-year criminal record probably has at least a few years more in his sealed juvenile record. I seriously doubt that he was a choir boy up until his 18th birthday.
Problem is, given a choice, a cop is going to go after a non-violent drug user, or issue tickets to generate revenue, than take the personal risk of taking down a violent criminal. So 90%+ of police resources are wasted on what are essentially political crimes while the real serious crimes are under-policed.
Get rid of the drug laws and focus 100% of police resources on real criminals, and jack up the sentences for violent crime. Nobody should be getting out of jail in 7 years after murdering someone, that number has to be 25 years minimum. A rape shouldn’t be 3 years of real time, it should be ten - at least. Priorities are all out of whack, we got people in for life for getting caught with a joint while killers get let loose back on the street.
He may have been on federal probation for some other crime at the time he committed manslaughter. Manslaughter would violate the terms of his federal parole, but the issue wouldn’t come up until he was released from state custody.
Overall, it’s a mess. And utterly predictable; the guy was a career criminal.
I best not post my thoughts on this.
He may have been on federal probation for some other crime at the time he committed manslaughter.
Remember the thug that killed a police officer in Memphis a few weeks ago? He was out on probation too.
Problem is, given a choice, a cop is going to go after a non-violent drug user, or issue tickets to generate revenue, than take the personal risk of taking down a violent criminal.
A police officer in Memphis was killed a few weeks ago by a thug that was out on probation.
probably wouldn’t have been on probation if the jails weren’t stuffed full with non-violent drug offenders - that’s the main reason the violent ones get let out early
You would be wrong. The cops I know much prefer going after thugs. Writing tickets is boring. The people who run the towns want the police doing “revenue enhancement”.
As much as having cameras on cops will help protect them from false accusations, it will also hamper them in doing their jobs. When a cop sees somebody he knows is up to no good, he used to be able to just tell them to get out. Now every lawyer will be ready to file a civil rights lawsuit on everything cops do that may not be by the book, but are important means to keep their communities safe. Criminals must be thoroughly enjoying all of this.
probably wouldn’t have been on probation if the jails weren’t stuffed full with non-violent drug offenders - that’s the main reason the violent ones get let out early
Put them in the desert in tents. We don’t need to build big prisons for them.
And I am not sure of how many non-violent drug offenders are not allowing room for the violent ones. It would be stupid to let out violent offenders before non-violent offenders.
This just hit the wires. 6 cops arresting a child for not wearing a bicycle helmet, in a city hit particularly hard by violent crime.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/arrest-bicycle-helmet-violation-police-state/#mUAVLsb8AqpQZ1M9.99
Much easier and safer to arrest a harmless child than to deal with violent criminals. Since everything has been criminalized, police now have the option of ignoring the hard work and going after targets like this.
6 cops arresting a child for not wearing a bicycle helmet, ...
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That was a big waste of time. I certainly don’t agree with them taking him in unless there was a warrant for him.
Why would any police officer take the chance of apprehending a violent felon and possibly not going home in one piece when they can do something risk-free like this instead?
It’s the natural endgame of “officer safety” and revenue collection taking priority over protect-and-serve.
There is no way I would be a police officer within 100 miles of a ghetto.
Me neither. And a lot of the people doing it, shouldn’t be. I’d wager that in general, those that do do this work have no marketable skills and are effectively unemployable outside of law enforcement. They do it because they really don’t have any good alternative to the inflated government paychecks and early retirement age. This leads to officer safety being more important than community safety - after all, they don’t live in the community, it’s just a job that they go home from every night at which point it’s somebody else’s problem.
Police officers should come from their own communities. They’d have much better intel and much more familiarity with who the real troublemakers are, and be much less likely to engage in harassment under color of law and predatory revenue collection when they’d have to answer for their behavior to their own neighbors and in their own churches.
It is a common and observable dynamic, most obvious in metro areas, that the police, who get credit for a stop no matter who they stop, will seek out meek white people and turn a blind eye to criminal minorities just feet away from them.
Why? They want to further their careers but they are afraid of getting hurt.
The best way to stay alive is to avoid minorities, in their view, because they know that minorities are more likely to fight, pull a gun, or flee.
Thus they target white people.
Not the ones I know.
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