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So, I am going to draw a parallel now. Here in St. Louis we have a District Attorney who ran on an activist platform of some kind who, like the San Francisco D

So, I am going to draw a parallel now. Here in St. Louis we have a District Attorney who ran on an activist platform of some kind who, like the San Francisco DA who was eventually recalled, just didn't prosecute. Over and over. Car thefts, sex crimes, whatever. Murder charges get re-filed and re-filed. Grumble grumble grumble. The flashpoint was a recent event in which one of the guys whom she ought have to have sent to jail a long time back (violated probation boundaries over ninety times according to his ankle monitor, among other things), got pretty excited to drive and some teenage girl from a visiting volleyball league is now minus her legs, because this guy wasn't much of a driver. Bang! And grumble grumble grumble is now a lot of noise. I suspect this is similar. We'll probably find someone with an awful lot of priors, maybe a violated parole, did the stabbing, and then folks will say, "Well, if this guy was in the slam like he belongs, this wouldn't have happened." Bob Lee may serve as the unfortunate face of some unpleasant statistics.

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gsibble 4y ago
Very well could. These progressive DAs are such a mistake. As was the defund the police movement.
pas 4y ago
> , just didn't prosecute. which is false, unsurprisingly. bulglaries ... prosecutors had filed charges in about 66% of the cases and filed motions to revoke probation in about 82% of cases. prosecuted 35 of 61 (57%) sexual assault cases requested for prosecution by police. what you point out is the real tragedy. due to the brutal level of overall crime the small ones slip through the system. which results in criminals going free for a long time. the level of deterrence is very low. on top of all this the prison system makes things worse, but there's currently no alternative. it's a multifaceted systemic problem (underfunded overly-brutal and excessively inefficient police department, politicized prosecution, underfunded public defender system, and the cherry on top is the lack of reintegration for convicts; the probation system is unnecessarily cruel and also inefficient)

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gsibble 4y ago

Very well could. These progressive DAs are such a mistake. As was the defund the police movement.

pas 4y ago

> , just didn't prosecute. which is false, unsurprisingly. bulglaries ... prosecutors had filed charges in about 66% of the cases and filed motions to revoke probation in about 82% of cases. prosecuted 35 of 61 (57%) sexual assault cases requested for prosecution by police. what you point out is the real tragedy. due to the brutal level of overall crime the small ones slip through the system. which results in criminals going free for a long time. the level of deterrence is very low. on top of all this the prison system makes things worse, but there's currently no alternative. it's a multifaceted systemic problem (underfunded overly-brutal and excessively inefficient police department, politicized prosecution, underfunded public defender system, and the cherry on top is the lack of reintegration for convicts; the probation system is unnecessarily cruel and also inefficient)