Posted on 03/16/2020 5:14:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Law enforcement agencies across the county have cut down the average number of daily arrests from 300 a day to just 60 over the weekend.
Officials in Los Angeles County are releasing inmates and making fewer arrests to reduce the risk of a coronavirus outbreak in the jail and prison systems.
"Our population within our jails is a vulnerable population just by who they are, where they are located, so we're protecting that population from potential exposure," Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters Monday.
The potential for an outbreak of the coronavirus inside jails and prisons has been a growing concern as officials across the country urge people to stay home and avoid contact with large groups of people. Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies are looking for ways to mitigate the risk in crowded lockups that have often been susceptible to contagions because of inmates' proximity to one another.
In Los Angeles County, the largest county prison system in the US, Villanueva said his office had reduced the population from 17,076 inmates to 16,459, a reduction of more than 600 inmates, in about two weeks.
Meanwhile, police departments across the county — including the Los Angeles Police Department — are reducing the number of arrests per day, cutting back from an average of about 300 to 60 this past weekend, Villanueva said. That's because those who can just be cited without being booked at local jails are being released.
"That gives you an idea what each agency is doing, and they're doing their best," Villanueva said.
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Welcome to Iran.
Just another liberal excuse to release their voting base.
Insanity
That’ll help... no wonder they’re declaring these extreme curfews in urban areas. Between releasing hundreds of “youth” onto the streets with no school and no supervision, and dumping the criminals back into the public places, life For the rest of us is going to be no fun at all in very short order.
Los Angeles is releasing inmates early and arresting fewer people ...
That’s a good thing, right ?
“”Our population within our jails is a vulnerable population just by who they are, where they are located, so we’re protecting that population from potential exposure,” Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva told reporters Monday.””
Which population is he referring to? The prisoner population or the Sheriff Office employees working in the jails?
I guess the law abiding civilian population residing in Los Angeles County are not vulnerable. The “elite” members of that society are going to feel very safe or maybe hire more security?
I would have thought being in jail is the best way of quarantining where these low-lifes can stay safe. If they’re released, I doubt they’re going to think about others and self quarantine.
Sheer idiocy, releasing criminals into the already panicked public who already have enough to worry about.
We can thank our Fake News for creating this mass hysteria!
Through this hysteria based on only 7,100 deaths, the media is on track to:
*destroy every aspect of our economy
*foster civil unrest
*chaos
We deserve what we get!
Looks like somebody ordered up some riots.
“...Our population within our jails is a vulnerable population just by who they are...”
Oh that’s a shame.
Well, that’s certainly going to end well...
/sarc
Looks like somebody ordered up some riots.
....
We allowed this to happen by accepting the Fake News narrative on Coronavirus! The media facilitated this mass hysteria, and sadly this site has been a sounding board for at least some of it!
And gee, who will come to save us? The Democrats! All part of the plan!
We’ve been played!
What could POSSIBLY go WRONG???
I guess it's better to have dead and abused members of the pubic, than
to have criminals take the brunt of the circumstances.
The right people could run low on ammo.
Go rent an empty cruise ship.
It is ALWAYS risky living in a blue area. You may get by during good times, but you’re at the mercy of the masses when things go south. And the people who live in Los Angeles and are all ‘woke’ - well, they’ll soon find the down side of living in a blue area.
Our society has truly gone insane.
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