It doesn’t matter unless they are willing to prosecute and actually hand out ten to twenty year sentences. This one-year and out scheme....doesn’t work.
My thoughts exactly. Why even bother to arrest these little punks? Wrist slap, don’t do it again and we’ll see you at the midnight basketball game sure doesn’t seem to work very well. Maybe they should track the names and see which ones end up shot within the next year. Not that they could be in a town where guns aren’t allowed. Nice way to celebrate Easter huh? Of course maybe they were just trying to meet new and interesting people. Were any assault rifles confiscated?
In some hoods it's an expected rite of passage. No convictions, no street cred.