Real bail reform might have saved lives in Waukesha

American Thinker.com ^ | November 28, 2021 | Ted Noel

[Kaslin]

The Waukesha incident has once again (and again, and again, and…) raised the specter of societal disintegration from the Defund the Police and Criminal Justice Reform movements. While bail is admittedly set too high in some cases, the outrageous and unthinking application of “cash bail is bad” is a slow-motion bomb going off. Double and triple-digit increases in violent crime in Democrat-run cities employing such policies are creating outrage among the law-abiding. Why should their grandparents and children suffer when such fools run the asylum?

The suspect in the Waukesha parade massacre was a career criminal. Darrell Brooks’s criminal background check in Wisconsin shows he was convicted in 2000 for aggravated battery. The long list of related sentences boils down to five-and-a-half years of probation. Six months into this probation he was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, possessing cocaine, and “obstructing an officer.” That should have been enough to revoke his probation and give him “three hots and a cot” at state expense. But somehow much of this was called “non-criminal” and the “disposition [was] not reported.”

It’s clear that nothing was done because two years after his original conviction, he obstructed officers, stole a car, and had another drug offense. That’s two felonies but, amazingly, there was “no prosecution.” A year later he was convicted for resisting arrest but was sentenced to…drum roll please…sentence to run concurrently with the previous five-plus years of…drum roll again…probation. In plain English, Brooks didn’t even get a slap on the wrist.

I won’t bore you with the litany of crimes you can read for yourself, but in 2010, Brooks was arrested for domestic battery involving strangulation and suffocation. This should be enough to get even the #MeToo crowd to call for his head.

[Candor7]

You elect a Socialist plick as Mayor.......you get exactly what you deserve.

[Brian Griffin]

In alleged cases of violence, a psych eval should be done before bail is granted. It appears that he had anger management issues.