Guns are not the reason we have gun murders,letting criminals out on the streets,that is the problem

[2aguy]

And here we see the biggest reason for gun murder in the United States.....not locking up violent criminals for a long time.......

DC Won’t Allow Concealed Carry, But Takes It Easy On Armed, Violent Criminals

The problems stem from the city’s Youth Rehabilitation Act, legislation implemented in the 1980s to provide leniency to criminal offenders under the age of 22, even violent ones, with murder convictions being the only exception. It allows judges to disregard mandatory minimums meant to dissuade criminals, often to disastrous effects. The homicide rate spiked by 54 percent in the District in 2015, and 22 of the murderers were previously sentenced for crimes under the Youth Rehabilitation Act, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

A man released on probation in 2015 under the law was involved in the July shooting death of Deeniquia Dodds, a transgender man. Just over 120 people previously sentenced under the Youth Rehabilitation Act have subsequently been convicted of murder since 2010.

“I knew they were going to let me off easy,” Tavon Pinkney, an 18-year old convicted of homicide in 2015, told The Washington Post regarding his previous sentencing under the youth law. “Nothing changed … They just gave me the Youth Act and let me go right back out there. They ain’t really care.”



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[2aguy]

From a link in the original story....

Second-chance law for young criminals puts violent offenders back on D.C. streets

Hundreds of criminals sentenced by D.C. judges under an obscure local law crafted to give second chances to young adult offenders have gone on to rob, rape or kill residents of the nation’s capital.

The original intent of the law was to rehabilitate inexperienced criminals under the age of 22. The District’s Youth Rehabilitation Act allows for shorter sentences for some crimes and an opportunity for offenders to emerge with no criminal record. But a Washington Post investigation has found a pattern of violent offenders returning rapidly to the streets and committing more crimes. Hundreds have been sentenced under the act multiple times.

In dozens of cases, D.C. judges were able to hand down Youth Act sentences shorter than those called for under mandatory minimum laws designed to deter armed robberies and other violent crimes. The criminals have often repaid that leniency by escalating their crimes of violence upon release.

 

[OldLady]

Wake up, Guy. We incarcerate more people than any other country in the world. By far. We can't afford to keep putting people in jail, and then refusing to hire them or give them any kind of hand up to rehabilitate once they get out. We need to figure out an alternative, not build more and more prisons that don't have the effect we wish.

 

[2aguy]

Wake up, Guy. We incarcerate more people than any other country in the world. By far. We can't afford to keep putting people in jail, and then refusing to hire them or give them any kind of hand up to rehabilitate once they get out. We need to figure out an alternative, not build more and more prisons that don't have the effect we wish.

as this article shows....we are not keeping the actual dangerous criminals locked up....these killers are not getting out of jail and hoping to find a good job...they are getting out and killing people....

 

[OldLady]

Wake up, Guy. We incarcerate more people than any other country in the world. By far. We can't afford to keep putting people in jail, and then refusing to hire them or give them any kind of hand up to rehabilitate once they get out. We need to figure out an alternative, not build more and more prisons that don't have the effect we wish.

as this article shows....we are not keeping the actual dangerous criminals locked up....these killers are not getting out of jail and hoping to find a good job...they are getting out and killing people....

This article is about young people--and excludes murder--who are gang bangers, mostly, or running drugs? Where the leniency idea fails is that it puts those kids right back in the community where they got into trouble. With no change in their lives or in the communities they live in, why in hell would they change what they're doing? What incentive? I've worked with kids like this, and they consider jail and prison as a rite of passage. Their dads or brothers or uncles were locked up, now it's their turn to become men.
No, building more prisons and locking up more young people for longer is NOT going to solve the problem. It's going to be harder--and probably more expensive--than that. But it would be worth it.

 

[2aguy]

Wake up, Guy. We incarcerate more people than any other country in the world. By far. We can't afford to keep putting people in jail, and then refusing to hire them or give them any kind of hand up to rehabilitate once they get out. We need to figure out an alternative, not build more and more prisons that don't have the effect we wish.

again...in case you missed it....

In dozens of cases, D.C. judges were able to hand down Youth Act sentences shorter than those called for under mandatory minimum laws designed to deter armed robberies and other violent crimes. The criminals have often repaid that leniency by escalating their crimes of violence upon release.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I agree that letting people out so soon when they are guilty of such stuff only makes things worse, but that right there is just it. It makes things worse when those who have never been busted before are who make this issue the problem that it is in the first place and that right there is what makes this matter such a challenge. When a person has never done something before, you don't know if they are going to do it at all until after they have done it their first time.

God bless you always!!!

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