Philly DA tells prosecutors seek lighter sentences, estimate costs of incarceration (Soros Toadie)

Philly.Com ^ | 03/16/2018 | Chris Palmer

[Kid Shelleen]

Offer shorter prison sentences in plea deals. Decline certain classes of criminal charges. And explain, on the record, why taxpayers should fork over thousands of dollars per year to incarcerate people.

Those are some of the instructions that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has outlined for the office’s 300 prosecutors — perhaps the boldest set of policies yet of his busy two-month tenure, and in line with his campaign promise to reduce the number of people behind bars. --SNIP-- The cost of imprisoning a criminal — estimated by Krasner’s office to be at least $42,000 annually — is roughly equivalent of the salary for a teacher, police officer, or other city employee, the memo says.

[Renkluaf]

Go for it Larry! Why not just have them write I won't do that again on a piece of paper 500 times then we can do away with all the costs of the court and the police.

[rjsimmon]

Liberal whispers to Moses: "How about we call them the Ten Suggestions?"

[Midwesterner53]

He subscribes to the same philosophy as the Broward County Schools and Sheriff: Want to keep people out of jail? Just on’t charge them with a crime, regardless of what they do. And if you do, make sure you get a white person or Hispanic in jail too keep a racial balance in arrests.

[Midwesterner53]

He subscribes to the same philosophy as the Broward County Schools and Sheriff: Want to keep people out of jail? Just on’t charge them with a crime, regardless of what they do. And if you do, make sure you get a white person or Hispanic in jail too keep a racial balance in arrests.

[Socon-Econ]

How about the many ignored costs of not incarcerating?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“The cost to incarcerate a prisoner” is a 2-dimensional image painted by libs suddenly concerned with overspending. Don Lemon would call it a “dog whistle”.

What if incaracerating a criminal takes a drug dealer off the street who might be responsible for 10-50 other people becoming addicted to drugs, committing crimes and assaults, and generating a cruddy reputation for your fine city so that tourists and convention folk do not come there any more. Then the dollar effect could be millions, could it not?

Nobody knows how to measure this, but even on a small time basis, yeah $42K a year is a lot for a creep who burglarizes $250 worth of tools out of your garage. But that same creep could in some other circumstance get a gun, and of course while the more sensible ones would leave the gun behind, most would not. And now you have an illegal gun on the street. Or maybe they steal a car and run the car into a telephone pole when the cops see the stolen car, light it up, and give chase. And maybe one or the other perps gets shot in the chase and then is a hospital for $250K worth of rehab, before he sues the city for $3.5 million. There is no rational way to measure the impact of being too cheap to spend the $42K on the inmate. But it is entirely possible that it’s among the cheapest options. Like hiring a really, really good carpenter for $75 an hour might be much cheaper than getting a cheaper guy who hoses the job to do your task. But society *can* say, “we would rather not have this person on the street as a potential predator or thief”. And if the purpose of gov’t is to provide for the general welfare, then keeping thugs off the streets and out of circulation is right on the money as far as being their responsibility.

[Doogle]

Eyup....this DA is an Odungo worshiper
He believes minorities(Ute’s) suffer
at the hands of white courts....and
he’s gonna make big changes...

[ProtectOurFreedom]

And explain, on the record, why taxpayers should fork over thousands of dollars per year to incarcerate people.

OK, here goes:
1. Our streets are a LOT safer with criminals in jail.
2. It costs a LOT less to keep them locked away than to pay for the crimes, the psychological damage to victims, and the death and carnage they cause.
3. They are animals and deserve to be behind bars.

End of explanation.

[Kid Shelleen]

Imagine the pain, suffering and money that could have been saved if Kate Steinle’s killer was incarcerated.

[Dahoser]

The San Francisco Police actually did that on orders from the Mayor who had promised to reduce crime in his campaign.

And it's what Obama and Holder ordered to reduce the so-called school-to-prison pipeline and what the Broward Superintendent and Sheriff implemented. The result, of course, being 17 dead high school students.

[lightman]

Well, if they don’t write crime reports, the crime rate will magically drop.

One of the reasons why the Keystone Cops aka Pennsylvania State Police refuse to take reports over the phone.

Make it inconvenient. Less reports = "less crime".

BRAVO SIERRA.

[Keyhopper]

How about automatic release when citizenship is renounced and then deportation

[Pining_4_TX]

Isn’t this the guy that Soros funded? It is his goal to elect anti-cop leftists to be district attorneys in every major city.

[shanover]

Philadelphia wants to revisit the “Badlands” era of the 90’s.

[snarkytart]

And these same loons don’t want you, law abiding citizen, to own a gun.

[Kid Shelleen]

>> Isn’t this the guy that Soros funded? It is his goal to elect anti-cop leftists to be district attorneys in every major city. <<

You got it. It is just another progressive controlist strategy to make up for what that can't accomplish with elections and activist judges.

[Iron Munro]

Texas Dept Correction put a series of prisons in East Texas in the Trinity River bottoms. Great soil for growing croos, but if someone escaped, they would get lost in the bottoms, and when found beg to go back to the prison.

Clear thinking Texans!

[MarvinStinson]

Spot on.

This is Soros in all his glory.

It is all calculated, bankrolled and put into practice.

Soros is smiling.

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[IndispensableDestiny]

And these same loons don’t want you, law abiding citizen, to own a gun.

The DA will drop or plea away gun charges, just like they do in Baltimore.