Posted on 03/11/2023 6:36:54 PM PST by simpson96
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In Hendersonville, there is a saying: commit the crime, do the time, regardless of your age, and the police chief told News 2 it’s worked in reducing juvenile crime in the city.
“They say, ‘Well, when am I going home?’ I told them, I said, ‘You’re not going home. You’re going to jail,'” Chief Mickey Miller said, describing a conversation with a juvenile suspect.
County by county breakdown of juvenile crimes Miller told News 2 juvenile crime skyrocketed three or four years ago as Nashville experienced rapid growth. During that time, the police department sent the young suspects to jail, a punishment Miller said they likely had never experienced before.
“When these juveniles were coming here with stolen cars, stealing cars, robbing people, we were very aggressive toward going after them,” Miller said.
Locking up the juveniles was just the first step.
Miller told News 2 the suspects’ fate then goes into the Sumner County court system’s hands.
However, the courts ran into a roadblock in 2018 when the Juvenile Justice Reform Act passed in Tennessee which put restrictions on judges’ sentencing powers when it came to juveniles.
Miller took his efforts to the state house and lobbied for amendments to that law, which eventually passed and gave judges more discretion on the stand.
Miller told News 2 Sumner County juvenile judges have taken advantage.
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“Crimes juveniles used to commit in Hendersonville, including carjackings and robberies, are now being committed by older teens and 20-somethings.”
Uh, officer! Those you arrested as juveniles are now older teens and 20-somethings. Maybe the current younger ones are wising up but once they start down the criminal path as 12 to 16 year olds, LEO’s are going to see them again and again. It takes a change in friends, culture, and surroundings to pull a kid away once they have made the decision to be a thug. Let’s hope the younger ones will see the light and not take that path their older siblings decided upon.
The department has dedicated a lot of manpower in finding these juveniles before they get into trouble. Those who do continue to face harsh punishments, Miller said.
“If there are no consequences for their actions, why would they want to stop? We hope that it will continue to be if they come to Sumner County, or if they start out in Sumner County and they commit a crime, they know there are going to be consequences for your bad actions.”
Just don’t go to Memphis! It’s ranked the 25th most dangerous city...in the world!
Ping!
Another deterrent may be bringing public hangings back. While you're at it, put "soft on crime" prosecutors behind bars.
The horror, the horror.
I do seriously believe that we are going to see a rise in vigilante activism in the near future. More and more people are carrying weapons for self defense.
O the huge manatee!
Po widdle Johnny goes to the poky.
What if ... what if that actually reduces crime!
Quick! Elect a Democrat and put an end to this inhumanity!
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In this area many of the car jackings are being done by under 16 thugs who face little punishment for their crimes even if they use a gun to commit their crime. These pukes need severe punishment and I’m all for building a juvenile prison for those violent offenders where they serve years of hard time incarceration for their crimes. Sadly in the Peoples Republic of Minnesota there is little chance this will happen. Perhaps things will get bad enough that vigilantes will hand out swift justice to these offenders.
Attaboy!
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