Posted on 09/21/2010 9:57:00 AM PDT by jazusamo
Hell, why don’t we just pay people not to commit crimes...sarc/off
sadly, the guys that seem to be held longest and most often are the ones who have otherwise productive lives, and will spend money in the system...
DUI and child support 'offenders' are held and strung along with high bonds, while those who would normally serve the flop, [guys for whom the system is constantly rewarding true victim related crimes] are released to commit crimes against real victims again...
follow the $$$...
Tell this to Chelsea King, who was raped & killed by a parolee who they let out.
If the officials insist on using cost as a factor- then I will insist on using any weapon I have to stop such persons permanently.
Come on down to Virginia, Dr. Sowell, where ‘ten years’ means ‘ten years’, because we have NO PAROLE.
Are you suggesting turning prisoners into petfood? I'm not necessarily opposed, I just want to get it clear.
It’s a shame the other 49 states don’t follow VA lead.
49? I thought it was 56. Now I’m confused.
Left unsaid is the cost to society of the predators roaming free.
LOL! 56 crossed my mind when I posted.
Read up on AZ-Maricopa CO.
I have had 3 A/C units stolen at my rental properties. The thieves likely got a few dollars each for the copper coils. It cost me $5000 each to replace the units. Criminals are VERY inefficient for society! They frequently turn thousand dollar assets into tens of dollar assets.
What is the cost of a hanging after one permitted appeal?
Unnecessary, und unlikely. But across the country a significant percentage of prisioners are illegals. We could easily send them back to their home country to be imprisoned. We could pay the country a fraction of what it costs us to house them here. That country would get some additional jobs and hard currency. We save a bundle.
I would think very little and that's exactly how to handle it.
Nice comment - I agree - money to keep a kid from becoming a career criminal is money well spent - - even if the odds aren't that great...
Follow the money in deed. When you hear about criminals who have been arrested dozens of times but are still walking the streets, it makes you wonder what is going on. I have wondered whether the defense lawyers are not working out a deal with the judges so that the criminal gets little or no jail time. This way the defense attorneys gets more money from the criminal since a criminal that is let go on the streets will go on to commit more crimes which means that he will have to use the lawyers services again and again. Whereas, if he was jailed for a long time, he would be off the street and the lawyer would make no money off him for a long time. Do defense lawyers give some judges kickbacks for not jailing their clients?
Another possibility—we know that the trial lawyers association is one of the biggest contributors to the Democratic party. What if the trial lawyers work behind the scene in the placement of liberal judges to the bench, knowing that this would mean more income for them since the criminals would be out on the street committing crimes and contributing to the lawyers income.
As far as the cost of crime to society— letting criminals off to roam the streets creates a culture of criminality. The criminals begin to rule the streets and start setting the rules for society. The criminals start to become the heroes to young kids as we have seen with the great rise of youth gangs. Decent citizens live in fear and the criminals become the dictators in their communities. Several decades of judicial liberalism has contributed to the spread of crime on a vast scale.
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