Posted on 04/18/2023 11:48:58 AM PDT by karpov
In my comments at Brookings on bail I pointed out that:
In New York City (2008-2013) most of the people arrested had prior interactions with the criminal justice system. On average, each arrested person had 3.2 prior felony arrests and 5 prior misdemeanor arrests—convictions were considerably fewer than arrests, which suggests to me that the system isn’t convicting enough people. Interpretations may differ, but, in any case, the typical arrested person has been arrested multiple times previously.
…I think most Americans would be surprised and upset to learn that by far the majority of the arrestees are released prior to trial, 74% in total in NYC.
Moreover, the people who do not make bail are obviously not a random sample of arrestees—the people who do not make bail are on average more dangerous—they have twice as many arrests and twice as many convictions on average as those who are released. For example, the average defendant who doesn’t make bail has 6 previous felony arrests and 4 previous failures to appear.
These numbers are by no means unique to New York City. Across 34 states for which data could be collected, for example, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the average person sent to state prison in 2014 had 10.3 previous arrests (median 8) and 4.3 previous convictions (median 3)!
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“... suggests to me that the system isn’t convicting enough people.”
Maybe they’re out of prison space. That’s got to be a consideration when sentencing, perhaps unspoken.
“... suggests to me that the system isn’t convicting enough people.”
Maybe they’re out of prison space. That’s got to be a consideration when sentencing, perhaps unspoken.
Lad, you can agree within 72 hours to spend 200 hours in a city penalty room within the next six months or your case will be turned over to the DA. Agreeing requires you to spend at least 8 hours in the next 72 hours in city penalty room. This is your acceptance form. Present it to the penalty room guard every time you serve time to get credit.
If convicted, you can spend up to five years in jail. The average time served for your offense for people with your record is three months.
Does anyone remember the prisoners all over the country being let out of prison during the plandemic? In WA, they were going to let Gary Ridgeway, the Green River killer, but the State supreme court ruled 5-4 against it. So four judges voted to let him out so he wouldn’t die of Covid. How many criminals are on the street today, because of that? How many of them used their Covid money to buy drugs and weapons?
The prisons are fairly empty, just like the hospitals during Covid.
Yes, in big cities, if you have ever been to court, you’ve probably experienced that, for lesser offenses, your lawyer talks to the prosecutor and comes up with a deal before the trial, because they don’t want to have to prosecute any more than you want to risk going to jail.
This isn’t like on a tv drama where they offer you a deal in exchange for testimony or something like that. They just offer you a deal because they don’t want to have to jail everyone because they simply can’t do it. So you’ll get community service, or court supervision, or a fine, etc, and be on your way, unless it’s something violent, or you have a lot of priors.
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