What is left out of these stories is the recidivism and parole factors. Over half the murders wouldn't have taken place IF only our government would keep these career criminals LOCKED up or excute them.
Nationally the recidivism rate is 68%...this is over a decade old study! It is up 3% from the previous study...it went up during slick willie's time in office.
redidivisim
Reports on the reassert, reconviction, and reincarceration of former inmates who were tracked for 3 years after their release from prisons in 15 States in 1994. The former inmates represent two-thirds of all prisoners released in the United States that year. The report includes prisoner demographic characteristics (gender, race, Hispanic origin, and age), criminal record, types of offenses for which they were imprisoned, the effects of length of stay in prison on likelihood of reassert, and comparisons with a study of prisoners released in 1983.
Highlights include the following:
Released prisoners with the highest reassert rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).
Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.
The 272,111 offenders discharged in 1994 had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.
Parole stats
cost of crime
Baltimore is doomed to repeat the violence year after year. The federal agencies are so intently focused on counter terrorism that unless its political corruption or organized crime that is occurring they offer no help to state and city law enforcement. There was a time when the U.S. government utilized the power of the mafia to their advantage. They knew that as long as their was money to be made that the mafia would always exist. The mafia provided connections and intelligence that was previously unattainable to any gov. agency. These members of Cosa Nostra were dedicated and loyal to their country and quickly jumped at the chance to provide the gov. with access to power and influence they hold. Since the late 80’s when the FBI severely crippled the stranglehold the American mafia had on the U.S., they have opened the door for ethnic gangs to rise in power. These gangs care nothing for U.S. patriotism and follow no code or rules to their criminal activities. This means more violence, especially on innocent citizens and no longterm leadership due to constant aspirations of underlings and their use of violence to attain the seat of leader. The intimidation of the community is serious because unlike the mafia that preferred secrecy and the thought that they don’t exist, these ethnic gangs enjoy the spotlight their crimes give them. There ruthlessness knows no bounds, having no thought of ordering the murder of police or public servant to protect their enterprise. In contrast the mafia had a rule that no public servant of any type is to be the target of violence, to mainly keep heat of their business and because they know that the police are doing what they do. The FBI made it a priority to bring down the mob to maintain its dominance of power. The Mafia became to powerful with influence in all aspects of U.S. society, so they had to go. Baltimore is run by local drug lords, some being organized that is comparable to Cosa Nostra(American Mafia), controlling the traffic of narcotics from wholesale to street distribution. Because they are not considered what the FBI considers OC targets like the Italians or Russians, they operate relatively uninterrupted