"These criminals are eloquent. Let them go."
Posted on 04/22/2007 2:17:42 PM PDT by george76
Amid a Beacon Hill showdown over police manpower, the state criminal database is clogged with an astounding 378,733 outstanding warrants for criminals who have slipped through the hands of authorities, a Herald probe has found.
State public safety officials could not even provide an accurate count of the defective warrants that are fraught with incomplete or inaccurate information or issued for dead people.
“The system is broken. If you have 378,000 warrants and 20,000 cops and some of these people are dead, some are out of state, some have changed their names or gave you a phony name - there are 1,000 things that have to happen to fix it,” said Reed Hillman, a former state police colonel and Republican lieutenant governor candidate. “How are you going to locate 378,000 people that don’t want to be located?
“There’s a drastic need for warrant service,” said Hugh Cameron, president of the Massachusetts Coalition of Police, which represents 105 police departments statewide. “There’s no one actively out pursuing them.”
The time on the lam poses a danger to the public.
The outstanding warrant figure has exploded from more than 275,000 in 1999, when lawmakers demanded a system overhaul after a criminal wanted on 75 warrants from 18 courts killed 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley of Cambridge.
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Those warrants are most likely for documented individuals.... add the illegals and I bet you got 500,000 easy.
This is just one state.
I wonder how many nation wide ?
"These criminals are eloquent. Let them go."
The civilized portion of the population is losing control.
And some wonder why I taught my 7 year old to shoot
crime "prevention" is a joke.
Most are there to process paper. The "go getters" find out real quick that in a union shop the tall poppy gets cut and makes the other ones look bad.
Take any stolen property crime in a big city.... if you knew who stole your stuff, took the name over to the cops what do you think your chance of getting your bike, radio, whatever back.??? The "paperwork" gets blamed and nobody wants to stick their neck out for stolen property.
Does anybody ever wonder why all the "crimes" on shows like "Cops" are either drug stings, DUI's or some low level serving of a warrant. The gangs are out in the open, selling drugs, carrying weapons illegally, and most of them are known to the police. The people are getting the corruption that they allow. If you can't trust people to defend themselves, why would a cop bother.
Guffaw . . . Snicker . . .
there are more warrants than there are fugitives - an average of 2.75 warrants per person. “There are 5,000 or 6,000 entered every month ...”
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