There is a direct link from the democrat party policies and gun crime in the U.S.

[Luddly Neddite]

And you’re going to tell me that a Republican prosecutor has never given a lighter sentence to some scumbag?

Again, the counties are the entities the run the courts. The cities have very little to do with it regardless of your insistence otherwise.

Yes....they do....but it isn't the philosophy of the party to do that...it isn't the belief system to do that.........the entire democrat party is passing laws that allow violent, repeat gun offenders to get out of prison......I gave you about a dozen stories from democrat controlled cities......

And the problem isn't just the cities but the state level democrats....

I said "democrat party policies..." not democrat city policies alone.......

Hmmm...

View attachment 308770

So all of those red counties that voted for your blob are also voting for liberal judges, democrats, etc...

shocking

The cities where our gun crime takes place are controlled by the democrats.....for example....Red state Louisiana.....both New Orleans and Baton Rouge controlled by democrats for decades........St. Louis...in Red State Missouri.......controlled by democrats for decades..........

Your theory doesn't hold.

Like in Republican rural Florida very little gun crime. However, you go to Democrat controlled Miami, Orlando, Tampa then that is where you see the gun crime for the state.

It is the same in every state. The concentration of gun crime in Georgia is in Democrat controlled Atlanta. In Tennessee it is Democrat controlled Memphis. In Texas Democrat Houston, Dallas and El Paso.

There is really no Red States and Blue States. It is Big City ghettos and the rest of America. The big city ghettos are controlled by Democrats and that is where the majority of violent crimes take place.

Very little gun crime in rural Illinois. Tremendous gun crime in Democrat controlled Chicago.

I have a good friend that is a retired Chief of Police in a Chicago suburb city. Mostly White, Conservative and Republican. He said 90% of the crimes he dealt with in his 30 years on the force were spillover from inner city Chicago.

They have extreme gun control laws......and then reduce the sentences on actual gun criminals.......how does that make sense? Meanwhile, the normal gun owner gets higher fees and taxes on their guns, more and more gun regulation...and if they make a misstep.....they don't get off the hook, they get blasted with the full weight of the democrat party judges and prosecutors.

You know better than that.

Make all the laws you want but if there are laws across the street, what does it matter?

Stop pretending that Chicago is some sort of standard. It’s not.

And you know that.




Sent from my iPad using USMessageBoard.com

 

[Oddball]

Yes....they do....but it isn't the philosophy of the party to do that...it isn't the belief system to do that.........the entire democrat party is passing laws that allow violent, repeat gun offenders to get out of prison......I gave you about a dozen stories from democrat controlled cities......

And the problem isn't just the cities but the state level democrats....

I said "democrat party policies..." not democrat city policies alone.......

Hmmm...

View attachment 308770

So all of those red counties that voted for your blob are also voting for liberal judges, democrats, etc...

shocking

The cities where our gun crime takes place are controlled by the democrats.....for example....Red state Louisiana.....both New Orleans and Baton Rouge controlled by democrats for decades........St. Louis...in Red State Missouri.......controlled by democrats for decades..........

Your theory doesn't hold.

Like in Republican rural Florida very little gun crime. However, you go to Democrat controlled Miami, Orlando, Tampa then that is where you see the gun crime for the state.

It is the same in every state. The concentration of gun crime in Georgia is in Democrat controlled Atlanta. In Tennessee it is Democrat controlled Memphis. In Texas Democrat Houston, Dallas and El Paso.

There is really no Red States and Blue States. It is Big City ghettos and the rest of America. The big city ghettos are controlled by Democrats and that is where the majority of violent crimes take place.

Very little gun crime in rural Illinois. Tremendous gun crime in Democrat controlled Chicago.

I have a good friend that is a retired Chief of Police in a Chicago suburb city. Mostly White, Conservative and Republican. He said 90% of the crimes he dealt with in his 30 years on the force were spillover from inner city Chicago.

They have extreme gun control laws......and then reduce the sentences on actual gun criminals.......how does that make sense? Meanwhile, the normal gun owner gets higher fees and taxes on their guns, more and more gun regulation...and if they make a misstep.....they don't get off the hook, they get blasted with the full weight of the democrat party judges and prosecutors.

You know better than that.

Make all the laws you want but if there are laws across the street, what does it matter?

Stop pretending that Chicago is some sort of standard. It’s not.

And you know that.




Sent from my iPad using USMessageBoard.com

Why aren't the cities "across the street" shooting galleries too?

 

[candycorn]

[

And you’re going to tell me that a Republican prosecutor has never given a lighter sentence to some scumbag?

There are very few Republican prosecutor (if any) in the big Democrat controlled cities where the great majority of the gun crimes takes place among the minority criminal community.

The Democrats control the big cities where the great majority of gun crime takes place. That is what we have been trying to tell you but you are not listening. Is it because you don't want to face reality?

The counties prosecute the violent crimes. Again, not sure why this is so hard for you to understand

Not sure what your point is.....since again, it is the democrat party policies releasing the gun criminals at the state and federal level. Where the trial is conducted under the democrat party is irrelevant.....

Hooo boy. You’re hopeless.

You have been shown the policies...democrat party policies....and the violent gun offenders those policies keep releasing. It is those individuals, released by democrat party policies, that are driving our gun crime rates....stop those policies, which will keep those violent gun offenders in jail and prison, and our gun crime rate goes down.

But........by focusing on the democrat party policies....by keeping actual gun criminals locked up..........you don't have to bother normal gun owners or their guns....

And that is what bothers you.........you don't care about the gun criminals....you want to be able to ban and confiscate guns from normal people.

Oh brother...

Here is a list of some murders (more recent than the 1980's) where the killers got off with light sentences:

· Delores Jean Eggert got 30 years for a 2007 murder in Arkansas.

· Debra Sue Tuggle, also from Arkansas got 10 years for one murder, no bill on the other 2. Currently free.

· Christina White set her kid on fire and killed him. Got 25 years.

· Shelly Lynn Casterline…20 years for murder in Nebraska.

· Mary York of OK…23 years after shooting and burning a 51 y/o man.

· Amber Hilbering of OK…25 years. She pushed her husband out of their high rise apartment window. This was after prosecutors offered her 5 years in a plea deal.

· Lindsey Nicole Blansett. Stabbed and killed her son in Kansas. 25 years.

· Esmie Tseng. Also of Kansas. Got 8 years for killing her mom.

Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas.... That was from about 30 minutes of research on murderpedia.com. You can look them up for yourself if you like. But we both know you won't accept any counter argument that doesn't fit your narrative.

If you want to say that murderers get off too light, I agree with you. But your insane desire to lay it all at the feet of "democratic party policies" if just a retarded preconceived notion that you harbor. Look at the states up there...Arkansas? Kansas? Nebraska? Oklahoma? And this was for about a half hour of looking on one website...

Please do try to be honest in the future. If you can force yourself to do so. Thanks.

 

[2aguy]

There are very few Republican prosecutor (if any) in the big Democrat controlled cities where the great majority of the gun crimes takes place among the minority criminal community.

The Democrats control the big cities where the great majority of gun crime takes place. That is what we have been trying to tell you but you are not listening. Is it because you don't want to face reality?

The counties prosecute the violent crimes. Again, not sure why this is so hard for you to understand

Not sure what your point is.....since again, it is the democrat party policies releasing the gun criminals at the state and federal level. Where the trial is conducted under the democrat party is irrelevant.....

Hooo boy. You’re hopeless.

You have been shown the policies...democrat party policies....and the violent gun offenders those policies keep releasing. It is those individuals, released by democrat party policies, that are driving our gun crime rates....stop those policies, which will keep those violent gun offenders in jail and prison, and our gun crime rate goes down.

But........by focusing on the democrat party policies....by keeping actual gun criminals locked up..........you don't have to bother normal gun owners or their guns....

And that is what bothers you.........you don't care about the gun criminals....you want to be able to ban and confiscate guns from normal people.

Oh brother...

Here is a list of some murders (more recent than the 1980's) where the killers got off with light sentences:

· Delores Jean Eggert got 30 years for a 2007 murder in Arkansas.

· Debra Sue Tuggle, also from Arkansas got 10 years for one murder, no bill on the other 2. Currently free.

· Christina White set her kid on fire and killed him. Got 25 years.

· Shelly Lynn Casterline…20 years for murder in Nebraska.

· Mary York of OK…23 years after shooting and burning a 51 y/o man.

· Amber Hilbering of OK…25 years. She pushed her husband out of their high rise apartment window. This was after prosecutors offered her 5 years in a plea deal.

· Lindsey Nicole Blansett. Stabbed and killed her son in Kansas. 25 years.

· Esmie Tseng. Also of Kansas. Got 8 years for killing her mom.

Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas.... That was from about 30 minutes of research on murderpedia.com. You can look them up for yourself if you like. But we both know you won't accept any counter argument that doesn't fit your narrative.

If you want to say that murderers get off too light, I agree with you. But your insane desire to lay it all at the feet of "democratic party policies" if just a retarded preconceived notion that you harbor. Look at the states up there...Arkansas? Kansas? Nebraska? Oklahoma? And this was for about a half hour of looking on one website...

Please do try to be honest in the future. If you can force yourself to do so. Thanks.

I will list the articles again...which show that the democrat party reduces sentences for criminals caught with illegal guns, and releases repeat offenders over and over again for gun crimes.....and give light sentences even for murder....

The links...with quotes so you don't have to go to the links...

Baltimore Democrats don't want Larry Hogan to rein in gun violence

Citing their opposition to mandatory minimum sentences, Democrats in the Maryland General Assembly say they are unlikely to pass Gov. Larry Hogan’s top priority this session ― the Violent Firearms Offender Act ― infuriating the governor who alleges lawmakers aren’t taking shootings in Baltimore seriously.

In an interview with The Baltimore Sun on Wednesday, Hogan argued that lawmakers who don’t support his legislation are out of touch with the views of most Marylanders and should step down from their leadership posts. On a table in his office at the State House, he spread out his internal polling results that show residents overwhelmingly want “tougher sentences for violent offenders who commit crimes with guns.”

Democrats in the Assembly are saying that bill won’t even make it out of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, so there won’t be a chance of a full floor vote or debate. Their objections are based on the removal of judicial discretion for a number of gun crimes in favor of mandatory minimum sentences. But judicial discretion is a large part of the reason the city is dealing with a murder rate that’s worse than you would find in some war zones.

The Democrats are also arguing that the city of Baltimore already passed tougher gun laws two years ago, but they’ve done nothing to stem the violence.

That’s a disingenuous argument, however, because the new law only applied in certain parts of the city and provided only one year in jail for illegal possession of a firearm. That was an improvement over the previous average of six months (!) but it’s still a laughably short stretch for most of the hardened gang members.

The same Democrats are arguing that what Baltimore really needs is better enforcement of existing laws. They note that police only made 20,000 arrests in 2019 compared to an annual average of 100,000 when Martin O’Malley was the mayor. Also, the homicide clearance rate has fallen to just 32%. But why not do both?

The Baltimore PD released data showing that the average homicide suspect arrested in Baltimore has eight previous arrests.

They don’t have the resources to closely monitor all of the violent criminals who are out on parole, so the same shooters wind up being arrested over and over again.

They believe that fewer than 100 gang members are responsible for the lion’s share of the murders in the city, but they can’t keep them off the streets.

Virginia

VA Dems Make It Clear: It's About Guns, Not Crime

Virginia Democrats on Thursday evening killed a bill that would have done more to reduce violent crime in the state’s hardest hit cities than any of Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposals, making it clear that their agenda isn’t about saving lives, but restricting rights.

HB1617, authored by Republican Del. Jason Miyares, a former prosecutor, would have provided grant money to cities in order to implement two programs; Project Ceasefire and Project Exile.


The two programs work in conjunction with each other, both targeting the cities most violent and prolific offenders. Those individuals are given a choice. They can stop shooting, in which case they can work with the Ceasefire folks to help put their life on the right path, whether it’s through a GED program, job training, an apprenticeship, and the like. Or, if they keep shooting, they’ll be dealing with the men and women in Project Exile, and their cases are going to be referred to federal court where they’ll be facing long prison sentences without the possibility of early release.

“You’re going to stop shooting. We’ll help you if you let us, but we’ll make you if we have to.” That’s the message and the strategy behind these programs and it works, as has been detailed by researchers like David Kennedy, who has helped implement the strategy in many cities over the past twenty years. It works because it targets the people who are actually committing violent crimes. In many cases, these most likely to offend are also the most likely to be victimized. They’re responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime and tragedy in the communities they live and prey upon. But many of them are not beyond redemption, and lives have not only been saved but changed by these efforts.

This is the bill that Democrats killed, while passing bills to ration handgun purchases, limit firearms training, establish red flag laws, and even allow localities to pass their own gun control laws. They want cities across the state to be able to put useless, ineffective, and unconstitutional laws on the books, while preventing them from putting proven and effective programs in place that don’t require any new legislation beyond establishing a funding mechanism.

This is shameful. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say that I believe this bill, had it been enacted into law, would have saved more lives than all of Gov. Northam’s gun bills put together, and Democrats killed it in committee. This is not common sense. In fact, it makes no sense, given the fact that the Project Ceasefire model has support from a lot of liberal politicians.

Chicago.....


Court records reveal even more men charged with murder, shootings while free on "affordable bail"

It’s been two months since Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans said, “it’s not by magic that we haven’t had any horrible incidents occur using this new [affordable bail] system,” during budget hearings on Nov. 4.

Since then, we’ve told you about seven different people who are currently facing murder charges for crimes that they allegedly committed while free on “affordable bail” awaiting trial for charges such as Class X felony armed violence, unlawful use of a weapon, and repeated use of a weapon by a felon.

It’s hard to fathom how Evans would conclude that those murders and shootings committed by persons on affordable bail weren’t “horrible incidents.”

Since November, our team has come across new cases in which men have been charged with killing or shooting people while on affordable bail awaiting trial for serious crimes. Here’s a look at these new “not horrible” situations:

Last February, prosecutors charged 19-year-old Armando Lopez with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, felony possession of a controlled substance, and driving on a revoked license after Chicago police allegedly found a rifle in his vehicle on the 2700 block of South Kedzie. Judge David Navarro allowed Lopez to go home after posting a $500 bond.

While he was out, Lopez got another gun which he used to shoot and killed 32-year-old nurse Frank Aguilar whom he mistook for a rival gang member on Nov. 13, according to allegations in court records.

Lopez is now being held without bail.

In April 2019, prosecutors charged 24-year-old Josue Becerra with having a loaded 45-caliber handgun in his vehicle in Albany Park. Judge David Navarro released him for $200.

Then, on July 23, police were flagged down by a man who told them that three men in a red Jeep pointed a gun at him near the 4900 block of North Milwaukee. A few minutes later, officers tried to pull Becerra over as he drove a red Jeep nearby. Police say he sped away, drove in the wrong lane, and cruised onto the Kennedy Expressway before they caught up with him. He was charged with fleeing and eluding, possession of ecstasy, and multiple traffic violations.

Even though he was still on bail for the April gun violation, Judge Charles Beach let him go home by posting another $500 bond.

Finally, on Jan. 21, a couple of Chicago cops said they were doing undercover surveillance when they heard gunfire and saw Becerra run past their covert car with a gun in his hand.

Police tried to stop him, but Becerra got into a car that sped away and eventually crashed in North Center. He and the driver were immediately arrested

Horribly, the shots left a 43-year-old man in critical condition. Prosecutors charged Becerra with attempted murder, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, aggravated battery of a police officer, and aggravated assault of a police officer. This time, he was ordered held without bail.
----

Chicago...

Woman facing robbery, gun charges after Uptown hold-up; Cops eye connection with second case

Prosecutors charged 19-year-old Winter Smith with felony armed robbery with a firearm, felony unlawful possession of a firearm, and misdemeanor counts of carrying a weapon without a Firearm Owner’s ID (FOID) card and possessing ammunition without a FOID.

The terms of Smith’s bail were not immediately available on Monday evening. According to online records, she has been released from custody.



New York....

Horowitz: NY crime skyrockets, shootings up 60%, following prison reduction agenda

No ordinary citizen can legally carry a gun in New York City, yet shootings are up 59.6 percent over this time last year.
On Sunday, a pregnant woman was shot while sitting in her own car in front of her home in Queens. This is becoming the new normal in New York after the memo has gone out to criminals in the city that politicians fear growing the prison population more than they fear crime.
According to NYPD crime data, in addition to the 59.6 percent spike in shootings over this time last year, robberies increased 32.8 percent and grand larceny auto crimes were up a whopping 62.8 percent. Burglaries rose by 17 percent. This is just for the first 26 days of 2020.
What gives? According to NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, it’s no mystery.
It’s all about New York’s law abolishing bail. “If you let out individuals that commit a lot of crime, that’s precision policing in reverse and we’re seeing the effects in a very quick time,” Shea said at a press conference last Friday. He decried the undeniable “correlation” between the rise in crime and the jail and prison “populations dropping significantly.”

Denver.....

Gun violence killing increasing number of teens in Colorado

In 2018 and the first eight and a half months of 2019, 15 teenagers and children have been shot and killed in Denver — more than in the previous three years combined. Even as the number of homicides in Denver grew over the past four years, so has the proportion of victims ages 19 and younger, Denver Post analysis shows.

The deadly trend is also reflected in statewide data. The number of people 17 years old and younger killed by guns in Colorado has trended upward since 2014, when six kids in that age range were victims of murder by gun. In 2018, 12 young people were killed.

---

The number of youths killed by guns so far this year already exceeds the number killed each year in 2017, 2016 and 2015. And, with four months left 2019, the number shot to death is coming close to the 2018 total.

-----

Data also shows that the impacts of gun violence are felt almost entirely by black and Latino youths.

Sixty-three of the 67 teenagers and kids who have been shot and wounded in Denver from Jan. 1, 2018, through August of this year were black or Latino.


New York....

Another Reason (If You Needed One) to Carry a Gun: Bail 'Reform' - The Truth About Guns

In most of the nation, setting bail not only helps ensure criminals make their court dates, but also serves as a deterrent to more criminal activity. After all, one can’t victimize innocent, law-abiding Americans when you’re in jail. And being re-arrested while you’re waiting for trial might just forfeit your bond.
New York State, however, has a new “no cash bail” law that took effect January 1 (because posting bail is racist or classist or something). The results have not been pretty.
Stories about of serial bad guys repeatedly walking out of jail without posting a thin dime for bail. Only to commit more crimes. From the New York Post:
Robbery is up almost 30% in New York City since the first of the year. Is this a statistical blip, a trend — or a New Year’s bail-reform gift from Albany, robbery now largely being a revolving-door offense in the Empire State?
Time will tell, but consider this as well: According to the latest NYPD stats, the number of shooting victims in the city is up 31% since New Year’s Day — so at the very least Gotham appears to be off to a rocky 2020 compared to last year.

Seattle...


Dori: Durkan's failures, political correctness caused downtown Seattle shooting

People right away criticized me for blaming gangs when we did not know for sure who was responsible. Of course we knew it was gangs. I’m sick and tired of a squishy media that won’t speak the truth because it is so consumed with political correctness. Everybody knew exactly what happened last night.

We do not let the cops do their jobs. The cops know who the gang members and drug dealers are. They also know that if they see a drug transaction and write it up for the prosecutor’s office, it’s going to get kicked because it’s not a serious enough crime. And when prosecutors pursue criminals, judges let them walk free.


The two suspects in this downtown shooting have been arrested 44 times with 20 convictions and 21 times with 15 convictions. Marquise Tolbert, the one with 20 convictions, had three felonies last year alone.


You tell me how someone with three felonies in 2019 is walking around free and able to engage in a shootout that kills a woman and injures a bunch of other people, including a 9-year-old kid. Both Tolbert and William Tolliver, the other suspect, are just 24 years old.


They both have previously been arrested and charged with drive-by shootings and unlawful possession of a firearm in 2018. So the courts knew full well that these were gun-toting gang members. Why did our justice system let them walk free? Why do we place criminals above law-abiding citizens?


--------

Carmen Best repeated the lie they’ve been trying to feed all of us, that Seattle is a safe city. Seattle is heading toward the other leftist cities plagued with gun violence — Baltimore, Chicago, L.A. There is a common theme between the cities that have gun violence, and that is the parties that are in charge. Best said we would “stop these shootings far upstream.” No, we’re not going to. Your system had these guys, with multiple felony convictions, including gun felonies; you let them go.




Virginia...


Virginia Dems Kill Bill That Targeted Criminals Who Use Guns

While Virginia Democrats are merrily approving gun control laws aimed at the state’s legal gun owners, they apparently aren’t interested in focusing on violent criminals who use firearms in the commission of a crime.

HB 1175 would have increased the penalty for using or brandishing a firearm while committing certain felonies, which seems like a pretty common sense bill to me. Instead, members of the House Public Safety Committee rejected the measure on Tuesday, while approving a number of gun bills that are meant to restrict the rights of legal gun owners in the name of public safety.
------

So they’re okay with making it a felony to continue to possess your 15-round magazine or to transfer a firearm without a background check, but the status quo is fine when it comes to punishing those who use guns in the commission of a crime.

Delaware....

In Delaware, 71% of gun charges are dropped
Exclusive: As violence rises, prosecutors bargain away gun charges


Balitmore....


Arrests in Baltimore for illegal guns often lead to dropped charges or little jail time


Minnesota...

Police have arrested this felon four times in the last four months. Each time, he’s been carrying guns, charges say. – Twin Cities

State law prohibits Lincoln from possessing a firearm since he was convicted of felony level domestic assault in 2011, court records say.
-----

He has two other unlawful gun-possession cases pending against him in Ramsey County from earlier this fall.

In the first, officers pulled him over Sept. 13 after noting that his vehicle’s windows were illegally tinted and found multiple bags of marijuana, as well as two loaded handguns, inside, charges say.

He was picked up again Oct. 7 on a warrant from the previous incident after officers found him working on his vehicle at a White Bear Lake address.

While searching him, police discovered a small bag of methamphetamine in his pocket and a handgun on his waist, court documents say. A loaded handgun also was reportedly found in his vehicle.
New York....
New York’s Thickening Cloud of Violent Crime
But judging by the state’s evolving criminal-justice landscape, empowering criminals seems like the goal.
New York State is preparing to roll out sweeping criminal-justice reforms that will prevent police and the courts from detaining people arrested and charged with serious offenses. The new rules on bail remove judicial discretion from a remarkably wide array of charges. No one charged with a misdemeanor, for example, can be held on bail, regardless of his criminal history, gang affiliation, or evident disposition for committing more crimes. Misdemeanors in New York include assault in the third degree, causing “physical injury to another person by means of a deadly weapon or a dangerous instrument,” and reckless endangerment in the first degree, when, “evincing a depraved indifference to human life,” someone “recklessly engages in conductwhich creates a grave risk of death to another person.”
-------------In advance of January 1, when the new reforms officially come into effect, judges and prosecutors statewide have begun easing into the new regime by proactively letting remanded prisoners out of jail and by releasing newly arrested serious criminals on their own recognizance.For instance, on Friday, Tiffany Harris of Brooklyn slapped three Jewish women in the face, yelling anti-Semitic imprecations. She was arraigned on Saturday and released without bail; she was arrested for assaulting someone else on Sunday. On Saturday, Steven Haynes, a Brooklyn man lying on the sidewalk, attacked and pummeled a police officer who asked him to get up. Charged with a series of crimes, Haynes was released by a judge and was back on the street within a few hours. In Rockland County—where the Hanukkah machete attack occurred—Jorge Flores-Villalba, an unlicensed driver, killed a pedestrian on Christmas Eve and fled the scene. He was released without bail on Christmas Day.

Chief judge says there have been no "horrible incidents" under his affordable bail program. These people might disagree, if they only they were still alive.

Two years into an “affordable bail” initiative that is allowing most accused gun offenders and even accused murderers to be released from jail to await trial, Cook County’s chief judge says the program is working fabulously.
----------

There are likely many people who would disagree with Evans’ definition of “horrible incidents” — if they were still alive to do so.

• On Feb. 9, Daryl Williams violated the terms of a court-ordered curfew, secured an illegal handgun, and then fatally shot 45-year-old Daniel Smith in the back of the head, prosecutors allege.

Three months earlier, Judge Stephanie Miller released Williams on a recognizance bond after he was charged with illegally possessing a stolen handgun near a “shots fired” incident on the South Side.

“That was me,” Williams allegedly told police. “I let off two rounds to see if [the gun] worked.”

Williams is now being held without bail as he awaits trial for murder.

Facts first. 100% reader-funded. Click here to support CWBChicago today.

• In August, someone fatally shot 34-year-old Neal Sumrell as he sat in his car in Humboldt Park. Someone also shot a woman who was in Sumrell’s vehicle as she tried to run away.

Prosecutors say they know who at least one of the shooters was: Antwane Lashley.

The 18-year-old who was free on a recognizance bond and electronic monitoring at the time of the shootings after cops said they caught him with an illegal handgun on the West Side in May.

Lashley was on juvenile probation for aggravated battery, causing great bodily harm at the time of his gun arrest, according to court records. He is now being held without bail as he awaits trial for murder.

• In May, prosecutors say, 30-year-old Antawan Smith murdered 15-year-old Jaylin Ellzey in a drive-by shooting. When police arrested Smith during a traffic stop two weeks later, officers reported finding a loaded handgun in his car.

At the time of the murder, Smith was free on bail while awaiting trial for Class X felony armed violence with a weapon; felony manufacture-delivery of cocaine; felony repeated unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, and felony aggravated fleeing. Smith was on parole for illegal possession of a handgun when cops arrested him on those charges in September. His bond amount? $6,000.

He’s now held without bail as he awaits trial for Ellzey’s murder and the earlier charges.

• In May 2018, a judge released 18-year-old Randy Wilson to await trial after prosecutors charged him with criminal trespass to a vehicle. But things escalated when Chicago police allegedly found him carrying a handgun illegally one month later. But, another judge released him to await trial again.

Three weeks later, a 50-year-old man told police that Wilson and three other men robbed him and two teenagers on the South Side. Police arrested Wilson and wrote in a report that he was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet when they found him. Prosecutors charged him with two counts of attempted robbery with a firearm.

He paid a $2,500 deposit bond to get out of jail. And, of course, the judge ordered him to be on electronic monitoring which didn’t help much before.
Gunday: A look at how the courts are handling some recent weapons charges in Chicago

Near North incident
You may remember our Oct. 30 report about a Near North woman who called police because a man fired a shot through her door after she kicked him out of her apartment on the 700 block of North Dearborn.The woman called police again early on Nov. 2 after she and her brother saw the alleged offender in the first block of West Huron.Officers arrived and arrested 35-year-old Christopher Stanley after confirming that the victim identified him by name in her police report, according to court records. During a search, police allegedly found a handgun in Stanley’s possession.Prosecutors charged Stanley with being a felon in possession of a firearm but not with the alleged shooting. Judge John Lyke set bail at $5,000 and Stanley went free by posting a $500 deposit bond.In May 2002, prosecutors dropped four counts of attempted murder and four other felonies in a plea deal with Stanley. In exchange for pleading guilty to aggravated discharge of a firearm, Stanley received a sentence of eight years, court records show.
Then you have this.....a gun charge while on parole for an illegal gun charge....

Gun charge while on parole for a gun charge

A man who escaped an armed habitual criminal charge in a plea deal with prosecutors two years ago is now charged with being an armed habitual criminal again after police say they found him with a gun in Old Town.
Chervon Jackson, 31, was paroled in January after serving half of a four-year sentence that he received for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon in 2017.
Then, on Nov. 3, police pulled over a car on the 1200 block of North Sedgwick because its plates were expired. Officers asked all of the vehicle’s occupants to step out of the car after the driver allegedly admitted that a drink container in the center console contained Hennessey cognac.
Seated in the passenger seat, Jackson made “furtive movements” and did not immediately step out of the car, police said. Once he was outside, police allegedly found a .45-caliber in his waistband.
Prosecutors charged him with Class X felony armed habitual criminal, felony unlawful use of a weapon, and misdemeanor obstruction of identification. In addition to the 2017 gun case, police say Jackson was also convicted of unlawful use of a weapon and burglary in 2004.
Judge Charles Beach ordered Jackson held without bail and the Illinois Department of Corrections issued a warrant for a parole violation, according to court records.
======
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...ood_luck_getting_a_cop_when_you_want_one.html

Boudin spoke at his election celebration in supposedly conciliatory terms, but if you look closely, he wasn't conciliatory, and his remarks were very anti-police.

Here's the San Francisco Chronicle report:

When Chesa Boudin is sworn in as San Francisco's new district attorney, he said, he will immediately get to work reforming the city's criminal justice system. Some goals, like ending mass incarceration, will take time. But others, like doing away with gang enhancements and ending money bail, will begin on day one, he said.

Ending mass incarceration on the logic that there are a lot of them in the can puts a lot of thugs out on the streets to prey on the locals. In Chavista Venezuela, that was useful for keeping the street protests down, of course. Boudin uses the more Sorosian argument that the only reason these criminals are in the can is racism, not anything they might have done.

He also says he's going to end "gang enhancements," which means extra charges for doing things gang leaders want their gangster peons to do, such as pick off an innocent bystander to prove bona fides. No wonder the Police Officer's Union called a Chesa D.A.-ship a gangster's delight. That certainly ends penalties for thugs for "only obeying orders," as the Nazis at Nuremberg put it. Gang enhancements, said young Chesa, "are explicitly racist."

His other "transform" initiative is to end money bail for assorted acts of thuggery. Ending money bail will make it even more profitable to commit crimes — and already every thief in San Fran gets a "free" $950 to steal from merchants as it is, given that no one gets busted for anything less. Now there's no need for cash bail for even those who take more.

Here's another sleazy set of false conciliations from the stepson of "Guilty as Hell, Free as a Bird." Commenting on the opposition of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, Boudin made the appearance of sounding nice:

Brockton man arrested a third time in 15 months on gun charges

For the third time in 15 months, a Brockton man with gang ties is facing gun charges after being arrested for leading officers on a car chase in the city Friday afternoon, police said.

------------------------
For Patrick Brandao, Friday’s arrest was one of three times he has been charged with gun crimes since October 2014.

On April 15 last year, 18 Brockton police officers responded to a car chase that led to the arrest of Brandao and another man.

Police observed a vehicle, with Brandao inside, on Winthrop Street that appeared to be circling around the neighborhood.

After a motor vehicle infraction, officers attempted pull the vehicle over and they took off.

About a mile away on Linnea Avenue, Brandao and the other man jumped out of the car and fled on foot. The car continued down the road for another 100 feet and struck a fire hydrant, police said.

The two were arrested and a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson handgun was seized.

In Stoughton on Oct. 17, 2014, Brandao was arrested during a raid by the State Police Gang Unit.

Officers executed a search warrant at 97 Pratts Court and found a .40 caliber Glock and 9mm Ruger. Both guns were loaded and equipped with high-capacity magazines. Also seized was 10 grams of heroin and $4,500 cash.

In addition, at age 18, in 2011, Brandao was arrested by the Brockton Police Gang Unit after a traffic stop for speeding that led to detectives finding a .22 caliber handgun under a seat in the vehicle, police said.
888888888888888888

PolitiFact - 85 percent of shooting suspects and victims in Milwaukee have "extensive criminal record," police chief says
10/26/19

Long story short, prosecutors say Wilson shot a teenager while on electronic monitoring for robbery, then went AWOL from the court system, and subsequently threatened another man with a gun before cops caught up with him. Did we mention that when police arrested him for the robbery, he already had an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle for yet another case? He did.

Here’s the story.

It all started on May 15 of last year cops arrested Wilson for criminal trespass to a vehicle. He was released to await trial. Not a big deal.

A month later, on June 11, Chicago police arrested him again. They say he was carrying a gun this time. Prosecutors charged him with possessing a firearm without a valid Firearm Owner’s ID card. He was released to await trial again.

Three weeks later, a 50-year-old man told police that Wilson and three other men robbed him and two teenagers on the South Side. Police arrested Wilson. They said in his arrest report that Wilson was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet when they found him. Prosecutors charged him with two counts of attempted robbery with a firearm.

Someone paid a $2,500 deposit bond to get him out of jail again — while being ordered to be on electronic monitoring, of course.

There was a little hiccup on March 11. That’s when Wilson failed to show up for court and the judge issued an arrest warrant. We’ll get back to this in a moment.

Wilson remained AWOL until April 25th. Police caught up with him after a man reported that Wilson walked up to his car and pointed a handgun at him. The victim said he thought the incident was a matter of mistaken identity because Wilson quickly lowered the gun and walked away.

A judge finally decided to have Wilson held without bail, and the Cook County Sheriff’s Office filed an escape charge against him.

On Aug. 19, Wilson pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and to unlawful use of a weapon in the two most recent cases. Judge Carol Howard sentenced him to 2-1/2 years for the robbery case and a consecutive one-year term for pointing the gun at the guy who was sitting in his car.

He’s currently in prison with a parole date of May 20, 2020.

So, about that failure to appear in court hiccup we mentioned.

On Sept. 17, a month after Wilson went to prison, prosecutors charged him with five counts of attempted murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm. They say he shot a 17-year-old boy on the 4100 block of South Prairie around 1:40 a.m. on March 9 — two days before he skipped bail.

==============

Shoplifting soars as prosecutors back off

The increase comes as Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx makes a public effort to back away from retail theft prosecutions. Attorneys in Foxx’s office are instructed to not pursue felony charges against shoplifting suspects unless the value of the pilfered merchandise exceeds $1,000. That’s three times the $300 felony threshold set by state law.

Since Foxx was elected in March 2016, retail theft reports are up 20% across the city. Along the posh Rush Street shopping district, reported incidents have more than doubled. And on State Street, famed in movie and song for its shopping opportunities, retail theft cases are up 32%.
==========
Since California Won't Put Those Convicted of Gun Crimes Away Long Enough, The Federal Government Is Doing it For Them - The Truth About Guns

But as happened in Selma, local police in California have increasingly been turning to federal authorities for help prosecuting gun crimes. The reason? [Criminals like William Carl] Adkins and people like him face far more time behind federal bars than they would if they were prosecuted under state law.

California’s tough gun laws aren’t tough enough, it turns out — and guess who’s stepping in

The program under which his case is being handled, Project Safe Neighborhoods, got its start in 2001 under President George W. Bush. It fell out of favor during the Obama administration, but the Justice Department under then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions reinstated it.


The idea is to seek out suspects considered to be especially dangerous and maximize their prison time by prosecuting them through the federal system.

Under California law, felons caught in possession of a firearm could face up to three years in prison. That sentence could be reduced by half for good behavior. Some felons caught with guns end up doing time in county jails

-------

Under federal law, however, they face 10 years in prison, and must serve at least 85% of that sentence. Since 2018, 175 individuals have been indicted on federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm in the Eastern District, and 161 have been sentenced to prison.
============
DC Poised to Triple Down on Early Release of Violent Criminals

One defendant killed an innocent 7-year-old child. Another shot a 24-year-old mother in the back. Others kidnapped a woman, held her in the back of a stolen van, and repeatedly gang-raped her.

These and about 583 other violent offenders—including murderers, rapists, and child molesters—could soon be let out of prison if Charles Allen, a D.C. Council member, has his way.

Allen recently proposed the Second Look Amendment Act of 2019, which would allow violent felons to get out of prison early—even if they haven’t had a parole hearing—and would prevent the judge from considering the nature of the crime(s) they committed.
----

The 2016 Act

In 2016, the D.C. City Council, at Allen’s urging, passed a law to reform the criminal justice system for young offenders. The Comprehensive Youth Justice Amendment Act of 2016 substantially revised how D.C. law handles youthful offenders charged in adult court. Section 301 of the law is called the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016.

This act, which went into effect on April 4, 2017, gave 16- and 17-year-old offenders who were convicted in the Superior Court (D.C.’s adult criminal court) an opportunity to get out of prison early.

To be clear, the law does not apply to all 16- and 17-year-old offenders, but only those convicted in Superior Court (D.C.’s adult criminal court). That’s an important distinction, because youths charged in Superior Court are those who are tried as adults because they have committed particularly heinous crimes—murder, rape, child molestation, and the like. The rest stay in juvenile court.
---
In a recent article criticizing the newly proposed law, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Glenn Kirschner, who led the homicide division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, shared the story of David Bailey, who had killed three people (two by shooting, one by stabbing) in two separate incidents by the time he was 17.

A judge released Bailey early under the 2016 law despite disciplinary infractions committed in prison (one of the factors the law required the judge to consider), a history of violence, and opposition from the victims’ families.


https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/dems_veto_red_flag_law_for_gangbangers.html
Democrats frown on targeting gang databases with 'red flag' laws

then why did they kill an attempt to use compiled lists of known gang members, which many police departments and law enforcement agencies possess? Why did they kill a measure to red flag gang members?
-----
consider that on last Tuesday two separate trials began in Chicago for known Chicago gang members Dwight Doty and Corey Morgan for the murder of nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee. As Fox News reported:
------
No red flags for these guys. Gang members with .40 caliber handguns? No problem or you might be mistaken about the two being gang members, says Nadler. Go grab the AR-15 from the home of a law-abiding citizen fearful that someday this gang trash will gun down his child or other family member. Scratching your nose in public could be the wrong gang sign, a crime punishable by death in Chicago. And Democrats say it’s Republicans who don’t care about the lives of children?
-----
“From Mexico to Chicago, they make $3.5 billion dollars a year. And the majority of violence in Chicago, comes from the Mexican cartels.”

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee amended the measure during a Wednesday mark-up to authorize the federal government to issue extreme risk protection orders in some instances, but they rejected an amendment that would have red-flagged anyone who law enforcement lists as a gang member.

“The majority of violent crime, including gun violence, in the United States is linked to gangs,” Rep. Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican who sponsored the amendment, said Wednesday. “My amendment is quite simple. It would allow the issuance of a red flag order against anyone whose name appears in a gang database if there was probable cause to include that individual in the database.”

Democrats objected with reasons that sounded very familiar to Republicans.

Man fatally shot one victim, wounded another while free on recognizance bond and electronic monitoring, prosecutors say |

It’s been 18 months since Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart warned that he was “alarmed” by the number of accused gun offenders who were being released on their own recognizance, sometimes with electronic monitoring.

“This needs to get fixed quick,” Dart told the Sun-Times in Feb. 2018.

It hasn’t been fixed.

Yesterday, 18-year-old Antwane Lashley was in bond court, accused of shooting a man to death on Aug. 23. Prosecutors say he also shot and seriously wounded a woman at the same time. Lashley has been free on his own recognizance with electronic monitoring since prosecutors charged him with possessing a handgun illegally this spring.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle wasted no time criticizing Dart’s concerns last year.

“I believe it is our responsibility to keep these matters in context and not contribute to sensationalizing them,” Preckwinkle told Dart in a letter days later.

As recently as Friday, Preckwinkle called concerns about people committing violent crimes while free on affordable bail, a “fear tactic.” She has also defended easy bail conditions for gun possession. Some people who live in less-safe neighborhoods feel the need to carry guns for their own protection, she says.

A gun, freedom, then a murder
Around 7:30 p.m. on May 20th, cops in Humboldt Park saw Antwane Lashley walking quickly on the 3800 block of West Chicago. He saw police nearby and began running, holding his right pocket as he fled, a police spokesperson said last night.

Lashley took a handgun out of his pocket, threw it, and kept running, the spokesperson said. Officers caught him nearby while other cops retrieved the gun he allegedly threw.

Prosecutors charged Lashley with felony aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. He appeared in court the next afternoon and was set free on his own recognizance with an order to go onto electronic monitoring, according to court records.

Then, last Friday, Neal Sumrell and a woman were sitting in a car on the 4200 block of West Iowa in Humboldt Park. Around 8:15 p.m., someone walked up to their vehicle and opened fire. Sumrell, 34, was shot seven times in the upper body. He died. The woman tried to run away, police said. She was shot three times throughout her body, but managed to survive.

Lashley—on juvenile probation for aggravated battery causing great bodily harm—was arrested at his home Thursday evening, just one block from the murder scene. Police say he’s the gunman who killed Sumrell and injured the 28-year-old woman who tried to run away.

Prosecutors yesterday charged Lashley with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and aggravated battery by discharging a firearm. Judge Mary Marubio ordered him held without bail.

“Victims deserve better,” said Anthony Guglielmi, the police department’s chief communications officer early Sunday. “We are going to continue to be the voice for those who have been silenced by gun violence.”

Not the first
Lashley is hardly the first person to be accused of killing or trying to kill someone while free on the county's affordable bail program. Among similar cases reported by CWBChicago:

In May 2018, Daryl Williams was charged with fatally shooting a man in the back of the head. He was free on a recognizance bond at the time while awaiting trial for allegedly possessing a stolen firearm the previous November.

In June of last year, Carnell Morris was charged with being an armed habitual criminal after police said they found a gun in his car. He posted a $1,000 bond. Six months later, while awaiting trial for the gun case, Morris was charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot a 51-year-old man.

Just three months ago, repeat gun offender Antawan Smith was charged with murdering a 15-year-old. He was free on a $6,000 deposit bond while awaiting trial for allegedly being an armed habitual criminal.

In Delaware, 71% of gun charges are dropped

From 2012 to 2014, more than 11,700 felony weapon charges were filed in Delaware, and in most cases, the weapon was a gun. Yet, 71 percent of those charges disappeared before trials began.

==========

Top cop laments violence as 66 shot, 5 fatally, over long Fourth of July weekend


Between last Wednesday and Friday, 42 people were charged with felony gun-related offenses, he said, but only 15 remain in custody.


That lack of accountability for gun offenders has damaged the Police Department’s relationship with the communities most beset by violence, Johnson said, making victims of crimes less likely to cooperate with officers.
-----
“It’s not about mass incarceration. It’s not about having quotas. But when somebody has a demonstrated track record of being a violent gun offender, that should say something to the judges who are making decisions about bail. They shouldn’t be out on the street,” Lightfoot said. “We can’t keep our communities safe if people just keep cycling through the system because what that says to them is, I can do whatever I want, I can carry whatever I want, I can shoot up a crowd and I’m going to be back on the street. How does that make sense? It doesn’t.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/criminal_justice_reform_comes_home_to_roost.html
=======

CWB Chicago: You Be The Judge: We give you the case details. You try to guess their bail amount.

McKay was sentenced to four years for robbery in 2008; two years for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (firearm) in 2010; seven years for being a felon in possession of a weapon (firearm) in 2012; and three years for possession of fentanyl in 2016.
-----
For McKay, who has two gun convictions and a robbery conviction, Willis set bail at….$5,000. McKay will need to put down a 10% deposit of $500 to go free. Willis also ordered him to go on electronic monitoring if he is released.

Some details that Willis did not know:
• McKay’s 2008 robbery conviction involved an armed carjacking. Prosecutors reduced the charge to “ordinary” robbery as part of a plea deal.• In 2012, McKay’s second gun case also included allegations that he fired the weapon. Prosecutors dropped the weapon discharge count and seven other weapons charges in a plea deal.• The 2016 drug possession charge started as allegations of manufacture-delivery of fentanyl, but, again, prosecutors pleaded that down to possession.

========
Detroit 911: Thousands in crisis left waiting for Detroit police

A 7 Action News investigation reveals that, over a 20-month period, 650 priority one calls took more than 60 minutes to receive a response. The calls include reports of active shootings, rapes in progress, felonious assaults, armed robberies, armed attacks from the mentally ill and suicides in progress.

=========

Under DA Krasner, more gun-possession cases get court diversionary program

In June 2018, Maalik Jackson-Wallace was arrested on a Frankford street and charged with carrying a concealed gun without a license and a gram of marijuana. It was his first arrest.

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office recommended the Frankford man for a court diversionary program called Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) that put him on two years’ probation. His record could have been expunged if he had successfully completed the program.

But Jackson-Wallace, 24, was arrested again on gun-possession charges in March in Bridesburg. He was released from jail after a judge granted a defense motion for unsecured bail. And on June 13, he was arrested a third time — charged with murder in a shooting two days earlier in Frankford that killed a 26-year-old man.

Jackson-Wallace’s case has been cited by some on social media as an example of how they say District Attorney Larry Krasner’s policies are too lenient and lead to gun violence.



In fact, statistics obtained from the DA’s Office show that in 2018, Krasner’s first year in office, 78 gun-possession cases were placed in the ARD program — compared with just 12 such diversions in gun-possession cases the previous year, 11 in 2016, 14 in 2015. and 10 in 2014.

============

Officials Address 'Vicious Cycle' Of I-Bond Violations After Violent Weekend

Many of the gun offenders arrested by Chicago police over the weekend walked out of jail on bond, without having to pay a dime.

As of Monday morning, 19 people had been arrested on gun-related charges. By Monday afternoon, 11 were back on the street, some with prior gun offenses.

“We know who a lot of these people are,” Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said. “And how do we know that? Because we keep arresting them over and over and over and over and over again. And it’s just a vicious cycle.”

In a tweet Sunday night, a Chicago police spokesperson criticized the practice of letting gun offenders out on Individual Recognizance Bonds or “I-Bonds.”
-----

The tweet said, in part, “Letting gun offenders out on I-Bonds shows there is absolutely no repercussion for carrying illegal guns In Chicago.”
-----
In a statement, an office representative said since the beginning of this year, 72% of gun related cases received monetary bail or no bond.
==================
http://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/05/man-connected-to-whitney-young-high.html

The man who is charged with driving the carjacked SUV of a Whitney Young High School teacher this week is on probation for possessing a handgun—a probation term that was cut in half just three weeks ago by a Cook County judge.

The CPD arrest report that documents the capture of Nicholas Williams on Tuesday says cops and federal agents found Williams “in possession” of a loaded 9-millimeter handgun with a defaced serial number. But, a source with knowledge of the case told CWBChicago tonight that the gun was “ditched” and weapons charges could not be approved.

The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to an after-hours email seeking comment.

Court records show that in Aug. 2017 Williams was charged with felony unlawful use of a weapon for allegedly carrying a handgun in the front of his waistband during a traffic stop on the West Side. Police said in a report that the gun had been reported stolen one month earlier.

A grand jury returned a 12 felony count true bill against Williams. But the Cook County State’s Attorney dropped all charges on May 3, 2018.

Five months after that case was dropped, Williams was charged with a new set of eight weapons felonies for allegedly carrying a handgun in the front of his waistband while riding his bike on the West Side.

----

Last month, Judge Maria Kuriakos-Ciesil sentenced Williams to two year’s probation, 30 hours of community service and 175 days time served in the case.

His attorneys asked for a reduced sentence and, on April 29th, Kuriakos-Ciesil granted the motion by reducing Williams’ punishment to one year of TASC probation and 30 hours of community service.

-------------------------
14 year old shot two men, released without bond or home confinement...


Cook County, IL: 14-Year-Old Charged With Shooting Two, Freed Without Supervision - The Truth About Guns

Welcome to Cook County, Illinois, where crime often has no meaningful consequences. Between a State’s Attorney’s Office reluctant to file charges and judges who mollycoddles defendants, Chicagoland has become the modern Wild West.

Case in point: a 14-year-old who (reportedly) shot and tried to kill two in a nice uptown neighborhood was released by a judge Friday to his parent with no bond – not even electronic home monitoring.


The Cook County judge claims the police failed to bring this suspected would-be gang killer (pictured above, right) in front of a judge quickly enough. So the judge, in order to penalize the police, released the kid without conditions other than to report to court next week.

Of course, the judge is really only penalizing the community as the accused certainly missed his calling as a choir boy.

The police, on the other hand, said they had concerns about the young man’s safety. Police released images of the suspects to the media in an effort to identify them and the media published them.

The Chicago mainstream media refer to the accused as a “boy.” Even though this “boy”reportedly shot one man in the back, abdomen, buttocks and groin and the other in the head.
===========

16 year old shooter released on 10,000 bond.....Cuomo's Raise the age bill for family court let this shooter go free on bail...

https://www.dailywire.com/news/44304/case-16-year-old-accused-shooting-bronx-street-hank-berrien

Bronx Supreme Court Justice John Collins made Garcia’s release contingent on either $10,000 bail or $25,000 bond, he made bail and he was freed. As The New York Post explains, “The law already guarantees that he can’t be held in a jail that also houses adults — and if convicted, his sentencing judge would have to take his age into account.”
--------
On Monday, prosecutor Daniel Defilippi indicated he would try to stop the case from being transferred to Family Court. Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, referring to the case as a “prime example” of the problems with the Raise the Age bill, said, “One of the things we brought up during debate was how this encourages gang recruitment. Gangs can recruit young people to do dirty work because they won’t be treated the same when caught.
------
Residents of the neighborhood acknowledged that the neighborhood has become a frightening place to live; one said, “We don’t go out. We don’t go to the park. I keep my kids in the house. We’re scared.” Another commented, “People don’t feel safe. People shooting in the street like that? No one is safe.” A third commented of the young girl, “She is lucky. Like an angel is watching over her because she was really close.”

”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.”

4/20/18

Democrats in Chicago want to replace guards w/therapists

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...ers-grapple-with-school-safety-after-parkland

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Some Illinois lawmakers want to give extra money to schools that replace armed security officers with unarmed social workers and behavior therapists, an approach to safety that's far different than a national push to add police or arm teachers following a mass shooting at a Florida high school.

Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch, a Hillside Democrat, said he proposed the plan after hearing from advocates who argue that investing in mental health resources is the best way of treating the epidemic of violence.

His plan, which is backed by 16 other Democrats in the House, would allow schools to apply to an optional grant if they promise to reallocate funding for school-based law enforcement to mental health services, including social workers or other practices "designed to promote school safety and healthy environments."


3/27/18
ACLU effect on gun murder in Chicago..
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...c-monitoring-sheriff-dart-20180222-story.html
Study: Chicago homicides spiked due to ACLU police decree

Cassell and Fowles have studied the spike of homicides in Chicago in 2016. Through multiple regression analysis and other tools, they conclude that an ACLU consent decree triggered a sharp reduction in stop and frisks by the Chicago Police Department, which in turn caused homicides to spike. In other words, what Chicago police officers call the“ACLU effect” is real. That effect was more homicides and shootings.

-------

Detailed regression analysis of the homicide (and related shooting) data strongly supports what visual observation suggests. Using monthly data from 2012 through 2016, we are able to control for such factors as temperature, homicides in other parts of Illinois, 9-1-1 calls (as a measure of police-citizen cooperation), and arrests for various types of crimes.


Even controlling for these factors, our equations indicate that the steep decline in stop and frisks was strongly linked, at high levels of statistical significance, to the sharp increase in homicides (and other shooting crimes) in 2016.

Cassell and Fowles then searched for other possible factors that might be responsible for the Chicago homicide spike. None fit the data as well as the decline in stop and frisks.

Cassell and Fowles quantified the costs of the decline in stop and frisks in human and financial terms.


They found that, because of fewer stop and frisks in 2016, a conservative estimate is that approximately 236 additional homicides and 1115 additional shootings occurred during that year.


A reasonable estimate of the social costs associated with these additional homicides and shootings is about $1,500,000,000. And these costs are heavily concentrated in Chicago’s African-American and Hispanic communities.

---
Dart sees 'alarming' rise in gun defendants freed on electronic monitoring

Judges have treated felony gun charges in a dramatically different way since the reforms were implemented, according to data from the sheriff's office.

Over a nearly four-month period in 2016, judges gave out cash-based bonds in nearly 96 percent of felony gun cases and released just 2 percent on electronic monitors. In the 10 weeks after the bond order took effect in September, though, the number of cash-based bonds for gun cases plummeted to about 40 percent, while those freed on the electronic bracelets jumped to 22 percent.

The amount set for bonds also sharply fell on average, from nearly $134,000 in 2016 to almost $22,000 in 2017, according to the analysis.

By contrast, judges also boosted how often they ordered no bond for those charged with felony gun offenses, to more than 9 percent in 2017, compared with no cases at all in 2016, the analysis showed.

---------------

Dart, along with Preckwinkle and other elected county officials, has been a vocal opponent of the cash-bond system in which judges require defendants to put down money to secure their release from jail while awaiting trial.

Critics say the system unfairly punishes the poor and that defendants charged with violent offenses who sometimes have easy access to cash because of gang ties can be back out on the street within days.

In July, as part of the reform push, Chief Judge Timothy Evans announced that judges would be required to set bail only in amounts that defendants could afford to pay in an effort to ensure that people charged with nonviolent crimes weren’t languishing in jail simply because they didn’t have the cash, sometimes only a few hundred dollars, to post for bond.

======The democrat prosecutor let this monster loose.......

But Democrat State’s Attorney Julia Reitz cut a deal to let Robbie Patton, a sociopathic predator who will never contribute anything but sewage and sadness to our society, avoid serving hard time for attempted murder.

It’s true. Bad guys in prison don’t victimize the innocent. Florida had proven success with 10-20-Life sentencing enhancements for the use of a firearmwhile committing a violent crime. A court struck down the law in 2016. Under the law, Florida’s firearmviolent crime rate plummeted to the lowest levels in the Sunshine State’s recorded history.


----------

John Boch: Lock Them Up! - The Truth About Guns

When you lock up violent criminals, you prevent them from victimizing other innocents. Crime in America dipped almost 50%after America abandoned “soft on crime” attitudes of the 1970s. Of course, many soft-on-crime politicians like Reitz have once more taken a love to “diversion” programs. And that’s how we get Robbie Patton (above), a local crime celebrity of sorts.

In 2015, he had an altercation at a Champaign Steak ‘n Shake restaurant commonly frequented by my friends and me. While none of us were enjoying a milkshake or steakburger at 5:30pm, Robbie was.

Robbie found himself in an altercation inside the restaurant. He felt one of his friends had been “disrespected”, so little Robbie went outside. He waited for the other group to emerge, pulled out of gun and tried to kill those other people.

He missed, and fled the scene with an Illinois State Trooper in hot pursuit. After a short, high-speed chase in a stolen car, Robbie crashed and escaped on foot.

Cops caught up with him. Local prosecutor Julia Reitz then went soft on little Robbie. She let him go to “boot camp”, even though that sentencing option is not supposed to be available for violent offenders. And squeezing off a bunch of shots at other people, trying to kill them, pretty much fits the bill as a violent crime.

After serving eight months on an eight-year sentence, Robbie returned to the streets of Champaign-Urbana. In less than two days, cops arrested him again for drugs and who knows what else. Not even three weeks after that, he’s illegally got agun. When someone “disrespects” another one of Robbie’s friends, guess what he does? He pulls out the gun and fires shots at those he believes responsible.




He misses his intended targets, but in the busy University of Illinois campustown district, his errant, not-so-late-night rounds found four innocent people within a block or two. George Korchev, the recent nursing school graduate due to start his career as a registered nurse at a hospital in Libertyville, IL, the following Monday morning, was struck and killed a blockaway from one of Robbie’s bullets.

----------

Democrats lower sentences in California...for gun criminals


California Democrats hate the gun, not the gunman – Orange County Register

Now that Democrats have supermajorities in the California state Legislature, they’ve rolled into Sacramento with a zest for lowering the state’s prison population and have interpreted St. Augustine’s words of wisdom to mean, “Hate the gun, not the gunman.”

I say this because, once they finally took a break from preaching about the benefits of stricter gun control, the state Senate voted to loosen sentencing guidelines for criminals convicted of gun crimes.

Currently, California law requires anyone who uses a gun while committing a felony to have their sentence increased by 10 years or more in prison — on top of the normal criminal penalty. If enacted, Senate Bill 620 would eliminate that mandate.

The bill, which passed on a 22-14 party-line vote, with support only from Democrats, now heads to the state Assembly for consideration.

Republicans and the National Rifle Association have vowed to campaign against it.

Why have Democrats suddenly developed a soft spot for criminals convicted of gun crimes? The bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, D-Gardena, says that he was motivated to write the bill after a 17-year-old riding in a car involved in a drive-by shooting was sentenced to 25 years in prison, even though he claims that he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger.

and for all those anti-gunners who want to know where criminals get guns....well...this law lowers the prison time for those who give guns to criminals.....

Why is that?

Prop. 57, for example, very deceptively and fundamentally changed the definition of what constitutes a “non-violent” offense.


supplying a firearm to a gang member,

l
felon obtaining a firearm,

discharging a firearm on school grounds









Chicago's grim murder trend blamed on light sentencing, misguided reforms

Lamar Harris had seven felony convictions and 43 arrests when he shot three Chicago police officers. The same week, Samuel Harviley, who had just been paroled after serving less than half of his sentence for armed carjacking, shot yet another of the Windy City’s finest.

Police officials, researchers and many elected leaders all agree that the pair were prime examples of the violent pool of criminals driving the city’s historically high crime rate. Ex-cons well-known to police and with a proven propensity for violence are being let out early from prison or let off lightly by judges, only to wreak havoc on the city, they say.



------

“We have five districts that are driving the crime in the city,” Johnson said in a recent radio interview. “And within those districts, there is a small subset of individuals who are responsible for those crimes. They have multiple arrests for gun offenses and until we start holding these people accountable [the problem will persist].”



----





Illinois is one of several states implementing recommendations from prison reform commissions to reduce or even eliminate mandatory minimum sentences. Those groups seek to reduce prison populations by as much as 25 percent.

The movement to slash sentences and free inmates is given momentum by controversial, police-involved shootings that galvanize communities, as well as protests by Black Lives Matter and civil rights groups. But shortening sentences of violent offenders puts both police and law-abiding residents of the inner city at risk, say law enforcement officials.

=======

 

[2aguy]

There are very few Republican prosecutor (if any) in the big Democrat controlled cities where the great majority of the gun crimes takes place among the minority criminal community.

The Democrats control the big cities where the great majority of gun crime takes place. That is what we have been trying to tell you but you are not listening. Is it because you don't want to face reality?

The counties prosecute the violent crimes. Again, not sure why this is so hard for you to understand

Not sure what your point is.....since again, it is the democrat party policies releasing the gun criminals at the state and federal level. Where the trial is conducted under the democrat party is irrelevant.....

Hooo boy. You’re hopeless.

You have been shown the policies...democrat party policies....and the violent gun offenders those policies keep releasing. It is those individuals, released by democrat party policies, that are driving our gun crime rates....stop those policies, which will keep those violent gun offenders in jail and prison, and our gun crime rate goes down.

But........by focusing on the democrat party policies....by keeping actual gun criminals locked up..........you don't have to bother normal gun owners or their guns....

And that is what bothers you.........you don't care about the gun criminals....you want to be able to ban and confiscate guns from normal people.

Oh brother...

Here is a list of some murders (more recent than the 1980's) where the killers got off with light sentences:

· Delores Jean Eggert got 30 years for a 2007 murder in Arkansas.

· Debra Sue Tuggle, also from Arkansas got 10 years for one murder, no bill on the other 2. Currently free.

· Christina White set her kid on fire and killed him. Got 25 years.

· Shelly Lynn Casterline…20 years for murder in Nebraska.

· Mary York of OK…23 years after shooting and burning a 51 y/o man.

· Amber Hilbering of OK…25 years. She pushed her husband out of their high rise apartment window. This was after prosecutors offered her 5 years in a plea deal.

· Lindsey Nicole Blansett. Stabbed and killed her son in Kansas. 25 years.

· Esmie Tseng. Also of Kansas. Got 8 years for killing her mom.

Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas.... That was from about 30 minutes of research on murderpedia.com. You can look them up for yourself if you like. But we both know you won't accept any counter argument that doesn't fit your narrative.

If you want to say that murderers get off too light, I agree with you. But your insane desire to lay it all at the feet of "democratic party policies" if just a retarded preconceived notion that you harbor. Look at the states up there...Arkansas? Kansas? Nebraska? Oklahoma? And this was for about a half hour of looking on one website...

Please do try to be honest in the future. If you can force yourself to do so. Thanks.

And killers who were out on probation.....because of democrat judges, prosecutors and politicians..

Murder of Hadiya Pendleton - Wikipedia

At the time of the shooting, Ward, the gunman, was on probation. In January 2012, he had pled guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and was sentenced to two years of probation. Less than three months later, he was arrested and charged with breaking into a car. In July 2012, he was arrested for breaking into a different vehicle. In November 2012, he was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing. During his youth, he had also been arrested numerous times on charges ranging from robbery to battery to marijuana possession, and had spent time on juvenile probation.[7]

Chief Dotson says judges are part of the gun violence problem in St. Louis city

The chief signed off on several Twitter messages on Monday, trying to alert the public, and perhaps pressure judges, to hand out harsher sentences for gun crimes.

In 2014, St. Louis circuit judges gave gun criminals probation 62 percent of the time.

The case that has the chief so upset right now involves Jamel Yates, 18, who was charged last week with allegedly killing a man he was selling a gun to in the 6000 block of Suburban.

At the time of last week's shooting, Yates was on probation on a gun charge related to a traffic stop that went badly back in February.

In April, Yates pleaded guilty to illegally carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest.

The judge gave him probation.

Now, less than six months later, Yates is charged with first degree murder, which the chief pointed out in that series of tweets issued by the department.

Back of the Yards shooters......

Back of the Yards Gunmen Wanted Revenge for Earlier Shooting: Authorities

Armed with an assault rifle and joined by several of his friends, Champ went to Cornell Square Park on Thursday night with one goal in mind: to shoot any Gangster Disciples in sight, authorities said.

Once there, he and another man unleashed a torrent of gunfire into a crowd gathered at a basketball tournament. By the time it was over, 13 people were hurt, including a 3-year-old boy with a hole in his face.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and prosecutors painted that vivid picture Tuesday as they detailed the charges against four men they said were behind the attack that put the city on edge and back in the national spotlight for street violence.

And while praising police for arresting the men just days after the shooting, authorities lamented a crime they said could have been avoided.

Champ, the "main player" in the shooting, had been convicted of gun possession as a felon last year. A judge sent him to boot camp, instead of the mandatory three years in prison that McCarthy's been advocating for gun crimes all year as Chicago has continued to struggle with gun violence.

“If Bryon Champ is not on the street — as he shouldn’t have been — this incident likely does not occur," McCarthy said. “He received boot camp for that gun crime and was back out on the streets to be a part of this senseless shooting."

-----

A license to commit crime

Before they killed him, the intruders bound Frederick Tucker's hands and feet with duct tape, beat him with a pistol and seared his hips and neck with the tip of a screwdriver they heated on his kitchen stove.

Then one of them shot Tucker in the chest.

The crime was stunning for its brutality, but in another way it was remarkably ordinary: One of the murderers — the man Tucker's family is convinced orchestrated the crime — was a fugitive whom the police in Philadelphia repeatedly allowed to go free because he had left their state.

Tens of thousands of felony suspects get away as easily, because police and prosecutors across much of the United States will not pursue them beyond their state borders. For many, that decision is a license to commit new crimes, a USA TODAY investigation found. With no one chasing them, unwanted fugitives went on to rape, kidnap, rob banks and kill, often as close as in the state next door.

Another Philadelphia fugitive killed his 1-month-old daughter, Arianna Ellis, by hurling her tiny body into the wall of a Trenton, N.J., apartment. Another savagely beat and kicked 79-year-old Roosevelt Morrow during a Father's Day robbery, leaving him to die on a hallway floor outside the bathroom of his modest Salem, N.J., home.

Had they been looking, the police would have had no trouble locating Tucker's killer, or any of the others. They all were arrested in other states before they killed, a process that would ordinarily alert authorities in Philadelphia to come and get them. But in each case, because they had left Pennsylvania, police and prosecutors had decided in advance to take a less costly course and let them get away.

Gun crime under democrat party President, obama...

The Gun Debate: Gun crime prosecutions on decline, amid call for more laws
However, recent studies show the Obama administration has not enforced many gun laws already on books -- with gun crime prosecutions hitting a decade low in 2011, down 40 percent from their peak under President George W. Bush in 2004, according to federal data crunched by Syracuse University. The SU study prompted 23 House Republicans on Friday to call on President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute more people for gun-related crimes.
---

The Syracuse study found the number of federal weapons prosecutions fell from about 11,000 in 2004 to about 6,000 under the Obama administration in 2011 -- and ticked up to 7,770 in 2012.


This problem goes back a long time....

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/w...new-york-prosecuted-fewest-federal-gun-crimes

THE DISTRICTS THAT contain Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City ranked last in terms of federal gun law enforcement in 2012, according to a new report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal data.
------
The districts of Eastern New York, Central California, and Northern Illinois ranked 88th, 89th and 90th, respectively, out of 90 districts, in prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita last year, but it wasn't always this way. All three districts fell lower on the list than they had been in years past. In 2010, for example, Chicago was 78th in federal weapons prosecutions.

 

[Flash]

[


Stop pretending that Chicago is some sort of standard. It’s not.

Chicago is the standard for Democrat controlled big city shitholes where most of the gun crime in the US takes place. Don't pretend it is not.

 

[candycorn]

The counties prosecute the violent crimes. Again, not sure why this is so hard for you to understand

Not sure what your point is.....since again, it is the democrat party policies releasing the gun criminals at the state and federal level. Where the trial is conducted under the democrat party is irrelevant.....

Hooo boy. You’re hopeless.

You have been shown the policies...democrat party policies....and the violent gun offenders those policies keep releasing. It is those individuals, released by democrat party policies, that are driving our gun crime rates....stop those policies, which will keep those violent gun offenders in jail and prison, and our gun crime rate goes down.

But........by focusing on the democrat party policies....by keeping actual gun criminals locked up..........you don't have to bother normal gun owners or their guns....

And that is what bothers you.........you don't care about the gun criminals....you want to be able to ban and confiscate guns from normal people.

Oh brother...

Here is a list of some murders (more recent than the 1980's) where the killers got off with light sentences:

· Delores Jean Eggert got 30 years for a 2007 murder in Arkansas.

· Debra Sue Tuggle, also from Arkansas got 10 years for one murder, no bill on the other 2. Currently free.

· Christina White set her kid on fire and killed him. Got 25 years.

· Shelly Lynn Casterline…20 years for murder in Nebraska.

· Mary York of OK…23 years after shooting and burning a 51 y/o man.

· Amber Hilbering of OK…25 years. She pushed her husband out of their high rise apartment window. This was after prosecutors offered her 5 years in a plea deal.

· Lindsey Nicole Blansett. Stabbed and killed her son in Kansas. 25 years.

· Esmie Tseng. Also of Kansas. Got 8 years for killing her mom.

Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas.... That was from about 30 minutes of research on murderpedia.com. You can look them up for yourself if you like. But we both know you won't accept any counter argument that doesn't fit your narrative.

If you want to say that murderers get off too light, I agree with you. But your insane desire to lay it all at the feet of "democratic party policies" if just a retarded preconceived notion that you harbor. Look at the states up there...Arkansas? Kansas? Nebraska? Oklahoma? And this was for about a half hour of looking on one website...

Please do try to be honest in the future. If you can force yourself to do so. Thanks.

And killers who were out on probation.....because of democrat judges, prosecutors and politicians..

Murder of Hadiya Pendleton - Wikipedia

At the time of the shooting, Ward, the gunman, was on probation. In January 2012, he had pled guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and was sentenced to two years of probation. Less than three months later, he was arrested and charged with breaking into a car. In July 2012, he was arrested for breaking into a different vehicle. In November 2012, he was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing. During his youth, he had also been arrested numerous times on charges ranging from robbery to battery to marijuana possession, and had spent time on juvenile probation.[7]

Chief Dotson says judges are part of the gun violence problem in St. Louis city

The chief signed off on several Twitter messages on Monday, trying to alert the public, and perhaps pressure judges, to hand out harsher sentences for gun crimes.

In 2014, St. Louis circuit judges gave gun criminals probation 62 percent of the time.

The case that has the chief so upset right now involves Jamel Yates, 18, who was charged last week with allegedly killing a man he was selling a gun to in the 6000 block of Suburban.

At the time of last week's shooting, Yates was on probation on a gun charge related to a traffic stop that went badly back in February.

In April, Yates pleaded guilty to illegally carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest.

The judge gave him probation.

Now, less than six months later, Yates is charged with first degree murder, which the chief pointed out in that series of tweets issued by the department.

Back of the Yards shooters......

Back of the Yards Gunmen Wanted Revenge for Earlier Shooting: Authorities

Armed with an assault rifle and joined by several of his friends, Champ went to Cornell Square Park on Thursday night with one goal in mind: to shoot any Gangster Disciples in sight, authorities said.

Once there, he and another man unleashed a torrent of gunfire into a crowd gathered at a basketball tournament. By the time it was over, 13 people were hurt, including a 3-year-old boy with a hole in his face.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and prosecutors painted that vivid picture Tuesday as they detailed the charges against four men they said were behind the attack that put the city on edge and back in the national spotlight for street violence.

And while praising police for arresting the men just days after the shooting, authorities lamented a crime they said could have been avoided.

Champ, the "main player" in the shooting, had been convicted of gun possession as a felon last year. A judge sent him to boot camp, instead of the mandatory three years in prison that McCarthy's been advocating for gun crimes all year as Chicago has continued to struggle with gun violence.

“If Bryon Champ is not on the street — as he shouldn’t have been — this incident likely does not occur," McCarthy said. “He received boot camp for that gun crime and was back out on the streets to be a part of this senseless shooting."

-----

A license to commit crime

Before they killed him, the intruders bound Frederick Tucker's hands and feet with duct tape, beat him with a pistol and seared his hips and neck with the tip of a screwdriver they heated on his kitchen stove.

Then one of them shot Tucker in the chest.

The crime was stunning for its brutality, but in another way it was remarkably ordinary: One of the murderers — the man Tucker's family is convinced orchestrated the crime — was a fugitive whom the police in Philadelphia repeatedly allowed to go free because he had left their state.

Tens of thousands of felony suspects get away as easily, because police and prosecutors across much of the United States will not pursue them beyond their state borders. For many, that decision is a license to commit new crimes, a USA TODAY investigation found. With no one chasing them, unwanted fugitives went on to rape, kidnap, rob banks and kill, often as close as in the state next door.

Another Philadelphia fugitive killed his 1-month-old daughter, Arianna Ellis, by hurling her tiny body into the wall of a Trenton, N.J., apartment. Another savagely beat and kicked 79-year-old Roosevelt Morrow during a Father's Day robbery, leaving him to die on a hallway floor outside the bathroom of his modest Salem, N.J., home.

Had they been looking, the police would have had no trouble locating Tucker's killer, or any of the others. They all were arrested in other states before they killed, a process that would ordinarily alert authorities in Philadelphia to come and get them. But in each case, because they had left Pennsylvania, police and prosecutors had decided in advance to take a less costly course and let them get away.

Gun crime under democrat party President, obama...

The Gun Debate: Gun crime prosecutions on decline, amid call for more laws
However, recent studies show the Obama administration has not enforced many gun laws already on books -- with gun crime prosecutions hitting a decade low in 2011, down 40 percent from their peak under President George W. Bush in 2004, according to federal data crunched by Syracuse University. The SU study prompted 23 House Republicans on Friday to call on President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute more people for gun-related crimes.
---

The Syracuse study found the number of federal weapons prosecutions fell from about 11,000 in 2004 to about 6,000 under the Obama administration in 2011 -- and ticked up to 7,770 in 2012.


This problem goes back a long time....

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/w...new-york-prosecuted-fewest-federal-gun-crimes

THE DISTRICTS THAT contain Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City ranked last in terms of federal gun law enforcement in 2012, according to a new report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal data.
------
The districts of Eastern New York, Central California, and Northern Illinois ranked 88th, 89th and 90th, respectively, out of 90 districts, in prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita last year, but it wasn't always this way. All three districts fell lower on the list than they had been in years past. In 2010, for example, Chicago was 78th in federal weapons prosecutions.

I just posted proof that political ideology has nothing to do with light sentences for murderers. Do you really think people read your manifestos?

 

[2aguy]

Not sure what your point is.....since again, it is the democrat party policies releasing the gun criminals at the state and federal level. Where the trial is conducted under the democrat party is irrelevant.....

Hooo boy. You’re hopeless.

You have been shown the policies...democrat party policies....and the violent gun offenders those policies keep releasing. It is those individuals, released by democrat party policies, that are driving our gun crime rates....stop those policies, which will keep those violent gun offenders in jail and prison, and our gun crime rate goes down.

But........by focusing on the democrat party policies....by keeping actual gun criminals locked up..........you don't have to bother normal gun owners or their guns....

And that is what bothers you.........you don't care about the gun criminals....you want to be able to ban and confiscate guns from normal people.

Oh brother...

Here is a list of some murders (more recent than the 1980's) where the killers got off with light sentences:

· Delores Jean Eggert got 30 years for a 2007 murder in Arkansas.

· Debra Sue Tuggle, also from Arkansas got 10 years for one murder, no bill on the other 2. Currently free.

· Christina White set her kid on fire and killed him. Got 25 years.

· Shelly Lynn Casterline…20 years for murder in Nebraska.

· Mary York of OK…23 years after shooting and burning a 51 y/o man.

· Amber Hilbering of OK…25 years. She pushed her husband out of their high rise apartment window. This was after prosecutors offered her 5 years in a plea deal.

· Lindsey Nicole Blansett. Stabbed and killed her son in Kansas. 25 years.

· Esmie Tseng. Also of Kansas. Got 8 years for killing her mom.

Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas.... That was from about 30 minutes of research on murderpedia.com. You can look them up for yourself if you like. But we both know you won't accept any counter argument that doesn't fit your narrative.

If you want to say that murderers get off too light, I agree with you. But your insane desire to lay it all at the feet of "democratic party policies" if just a retarded preconceived notion that you harbor. Look at the states up there...Arkansas? Kansas? Nebraska? Oklahoma? And this was for about a half hour of looking on one website...

Please do try to be honest in the future. If you can force yourself to do so. Thanks.

And killers who were out on probation.....because of democrat judges, prosecutors and politicians..

Murder of Hadiya Pendleton - Wikipedia

At the time of the shooting, Ward, the gunman, was on probation. In January 2012, he had pled guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and was sentenced to two years of probation. Less than three months later, he was arrested and charged with breaking into a car. In July 2012, he was arrested for breaking into a different vehicle. In November 2012, he was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing. During his youth, he had also been arrested numerous times on charges ranging from robbery to battery to marijuana possession, and had spent time on juvenile probation.[7]

Chief Dotson says judges are part of the gun violence problem in St. Louis city

The chief signed off on several Twitter messages on Monday, trying to alert the public, and perhaps pressure judges, to hand out harsher sentences for gun crimes.

In 2014, St. Louis circuit judges gave gun criminals probation 62 percent of the time.

The case that has the chief so upset right now involves Jamel Yates, 18, who was charged last week with allegedly killing a man he was selling a gun to in the 6000 block of Suburban.

At the time of last week's shooting, Yates was on probation on a gun charge related to a traffic stop that went badly back in February.

In April, Yates pleaded guilty to illegally carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest.

The judge gave him probation.

Now, less than six months later, Yates is charged with first degree murder, which the chief pointed out in that series of tweets issued by the department.

Back of the Yards shooters......

Back of the Yards Gunmen Wanted Revenge for Earlier Shooting: Authorities

Armed with an assault rifle and joined by several of his friends, Champ went to Cornell Square Park on Thursday night with one goal in mind: to shoot any Gangster Disciples in sight, authorities said.

Once there, he and another man unleashed a torrent of gunfire into a crowd gathered at a basketball tournament. By the time it was over, 13 people were hurt, including a 3-year-old boy with a hole in his face.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and prosecutors painted that vivid picture Tuesday as they detailed the charges against four men they said were behind the attack that put the city on edge and back in the national spotlight for street violence.

And while praising police for arresting the men just days after the shooting, authorities lamented a crime they said could have been avoided.

Champ, the "main player" in the shooting, had been convicted of gun possession as a felon last year. A judge sent him to boot camp, instead of the mandatory three years in prison that McCarthy's been advocating for gun crimes all year as Chicago has continued to struggle with gun violence.

“If Bryon Champ is not on the street — as he shouldn’t have been — this incident likely does not occur," McCarthy said. “He received boot camp for that gun crime and was back out on the streets to be a part of this senseless shooting."

-----

A license to commit crime

Before they killed him, the intruders bound Frederick Tucker's hands and feet with duct tape, beat him with a pistol and seared his hips and neck with the tip of a screwdriver they heated on his kitchen stove.

Then one of them shot Tucker in the chest.

The crime was stunning for its brutality, but in another way it was remarkably ordinary: One of the murderers — the man Tucker's family is convinced orchestrated the crime — was a fugitive whom the police in Philadelphia repeatedly allowed to go free because he had left their state.

Tens of thousands of felony suspects get away as easily, because police and prosecutors across much of the United States will not pursue them beyond their state borders. For many, that decision is a license to commit new crimes, a USA TODAY investigation found. With no one chasing them, unwanted fugitives went on to rape, kidnap, rob banks and kill, often as close as in the state next door.

Another Philadelphia fugitive killed his 1-month-old daughter, Arianna Ellis, by hurling her tiny body into the wall of a Trenton, N.J., apartment. Another savagely beat and kicked 79-year-old Roosevelt Morrow during a Father's Day robbery, leaving him to die on a hallway floor outside the bathroom of his modest Salem, N.J., home.

Had they been looking, the police would have had no trouble locating Tucker's killer, or any of the others. They all were arrested in other states before they killed, a process that would ordinarily alert authorities in Philadelphia to come and get them. But in each case, because they had left Pennsylvania, police and prosecutors had decided in advance to take a less costly course and let them get away.

Gun crime under democrat party President, obama...

The Gun Debate: Gun crime prosecutions on decline, amid call for more laws
However, recent studies show the Obama administration has not enforced many gun laws already on books -- with gun crime prosecutions hitting a decade low in 2011, down 40 percent from their peak under President George W. Bush in 2004, according to federal data crunched by Syracuse University. The SU study prompted 23 House Republicans on Friday to call on President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute more people for gun-related crimes.
---

The Syracuse study found the number of federal weapons prosecutions fell from about 11,000 in 2004 to about 6,000 under the Obama administration in 2011 -- and ticked up to 7,770 in 2012.


This problem goes back a long time....

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/w...new-york-prosecuted-fewest-federal-gun-crimes

THE DISTRICTS THAT contain Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City ranked last in terms of federal gun law enforcement in 2012, according to a new report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal data.
------
The districts of Eastern New York, Central California, and Northern Illinois ranked 88th, 89th and 90th, respectively, out of 90 districts, in prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita last year, but it wasn't always this way. All three districts fell lower on the list than they had been in years past. In 2010, for example, Chicago was 78th in federal weapons prosecutions.

I just posted proof that political ideology has nothing to do with light sentences for murderers. Do you really think people read your manifestos?

Moron, it isn't a manifesto, it is a list of news articles from around the country showing that democrat party policies lead to increased gun crime.

 

[candycorn]

Hooo boy. You’re hopeless.

You have been shown the policies...democrat party policies....and the violent gun offenders those policies keep releasing. It is those individuals, released by democrat party policies, that are driving our gun crime rates....stop those policies, which will keep those violent gun offenders in jail and prison, and our gun crime rate goes down.

But........by focusing on the democrat party policies....by keeping actual gun criminals locked up..........you don't have to bother normal gun owners or their guns....

And that is what bothers you.........you don't care about the gun criminals....you want to be able to ban and confiscate guns from normal people.

Oh brother...

Here is a list of some murders (more recent than the 1980's) where the killers got off with light sentences:

· Delores Jean Eggert got 30 years for a 2007 murder in Arkansas.

· Debra Sue Tuggle, also from Arkansas got 10 years for one murder, no bill on the other 2. Currently free.

· Christina White set her kid on fire and killed him. Got 25 years.

· Shelly Lynn Casterline…20 years for murder in Nebraska.

· Mary York of OK…23 years after shooting and burning a 51 y/o man.

· Amber Hilbering of OK…25 years. She pushed her husband out of their high rise apartment window. This was after prosecutors offered her 5 years in a plea deal.

· Lindsey Nicole Blansett. Stabbed and killed her son in Kansas. 25 years.

· Esmie Tseng. Also of Kansas. Got 8 years for killing her mom.

Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas.... That was from about 30 minutes of research on murderpedia.com. You can look them up for yourself if you like. But we both know you won't accept any counter argument that doesn't fit your narrative.

If you want to say that murderers get off too light, I agree with you. But your insane desire to lay it all at the feet of "democratic party policies" if just a retarded preconceived notion that you harbor. Look at the states up there...Arkansas? Kansas? Nebraska? Oklahoma? And this was for about a half hour of looking on one website...

Please do try to be honest in the future. If you can force yourself to do so. Thanks.

And killers who were out on probation.....because of democrat judges, prosecutors and politicians..

Murder of Hadiya Pendleton - Wikipedia

At the time of the shooting, Ward, the gunman, was on probation. In January 2012, he had pled guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and was sentenced to two years of probation. Less than three months later, he was arrested and charged with breaking into a car. In July 2012, he was arrested for breaking into a different vehicle. In November 2012, he was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing. During his youth, he had also been arrested numerous times on charges ranging from robbery to battery to marijuana possession, and had spent time on juvenile probation.[7]

Chief Dotson says judges are part of the gun violence problem in St. Louis city

The chief signed off on several Twitter messages on Monday, trying to alert the public, and perhaps pressure judges, to hand out harsher sentences for gun crimes.

In 2014, St. Louis circuit judges gave gun criminals probation 62 percent of the time.

The case that has the chief so upset right now involves Jamel Yates, 18, who was charged last week with allegedly killing a man he was selling a gun to in the 6000 block of Suburban.

At the time of last week's shooting, Yates was on probation on a gun charge related to a traffic stop that went badly back in February.

In April, Yates pleaded guilty to illegally carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest.

The judge gave him probation.

Now, less than six months later, Yates is charged with first degree murder, which the chief pointed out in that series of tweets issued by the department.

Back of the Yards shooters......

Back of the Yards Gunmen Wanted Revenge for Earlier Shooting: Authorities

Armed with an assault rifle and joined by several of his friends, Champ went to Cornell Square Park on Thursday night with one goal in mind: to shoot any Gangster Disciples in sight, authorities said.

Once there, he and another man unleashed a torrent of gunfire into a crowd gathered at a basketball tournament. By the time it was over, 13 people were hurt, including a 3-year-old boy with a hole in his face.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and prosecutors painted that vivid picture Tuesday as they detailed the charges against four men they said were behind the attack that put the city on edge and back in the national spotlight for street violence.

And while praising police for arresting the men just days after the shooting, authorities lamented a crime they said could have been avoided.

Champ, the "main player" in the shooting, had been convicted of gun possession as a felon last year. A judge sent him to boot camp, instead of the mandatory three years in prison that McCarthy's been advocating for gun crimes all year as Chicago has continued to struggle with gun violence.

“If Bryon Champ is not on the street — as he shouldn’t have been — this incident likely does not occur," McCarthy said. “He received boot camp for that gun crime and was back out on the streets to be a part of this senseless shooting."

-----

A license to commit crime

Before they killed him, the intruders bound Frederick Tucker's hands and feet with duct tape, beat him with a pistol and seared his hips and neck with the tip of a screwdriver they heated on his kitchen stove.

Then one of them shot Tucker in the chest.

The crime was stunning for its brutality, but in another way it was remarkably ordinary: One of the murderers — the man Tucker's family is convinced orchestrated the crime — was a fugitive whom the police in Philadelphia repeatedly allowed to go free because he had left their state.

Tens of thousands of felony suspects get away as easily, because police and prosecutors across much of the United States will not pursue them beyond their state borders. For many, that decision is a license to commit new crimes, a USA TODAY investigation found. With no one chasing them, unwanted fugitives went on to rape, kidnap, rob banks and kill, often as close as in the state next door.

Another Philadelphia fugitive killed his 1-month-old daughter, Arianna Ellis, by hurling her tiny body into the wall of a Trenton, N.J., apartment. Another savagely beat and kicked 79-year-old Roosevelt Morrow during a Father's Day robbery, leaving him to die on a hallway floor outside the bathroom of his modest Salem, N.J., home.

Had they been looking, the police would have had no trouble locating Tucker's killer, or any of the others. They all were arrested in other states before they killed, a process that would ordinarily alert authorities in Philadelphia to come and get them. But in each case, because they had left Pennsylvania, police and prosecutors had decided in advance to take a less costly course and let them get away.

Gun crime under democrat party President, obama...

The Gun Debate: Gun crime prosecutions on decline, amid call for more laws
However, recent studies show the Obama administration has not enforced many gun laws already on books -- with gun crime prosecutions hitting a decade low in 2011, down 40 percent from their peak under President George W. Bush in 2004, according to federal data crunched by Syracuse University. The SU study prompted 23 House Republicans on Friday to call on President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute more people for gun-related crimes.
---

The Syracuse study found the number of federal weapons prosecutions fell from about 11,000 in 2004 to about 6,000 under the Obama administration in 2011 -- and ticked up to 7,770 in 2012.


This problem goes back a long time....

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/w...new-york-prosecuted-fewest-federal-gun-crimes

THE DISTRICTS THAT contain Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City ranked last in terms of federal gun law enforcement in 2012, according to a new report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal data.
------
The districts of Eastern New York, Central California, and Northern Illinois ranked 88th, 89th and 90th, respectively, out of 90 districts, in prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita last year, but it wasn't always this way. All three districts fell lower on the list than they had been in years past. In 2010, for example, Chicago was 78th in federal weapons prosecutions.

I just posted proof that political ideology has nothing to do with light sentences for murderers. Do you really think people read your manifestos?

Moron, it isn't a manifesto, it is a list of news articles from around the country showing that democrat party policies lead to increased gun crime.

Yeah, the 3 zillion guns on the street have nothing to do with it right moron? Amazing that the liberal governments that don’t have the 2nd amendment have much lower murder rates.

 

[2aguy]

You have been shown the policies...democrat party policies....and the violent gun offenders those policies keep releasing. It is those individuals, released by democrat party policies, that are driving our gun crime rates....stop those policies, which will keep those violent gun offenders in jail and prison, and our gun crime rate goes down.

But........by focusing on the democrat party policies....by keeping actual gun criminals locked up..........you don't have to bother normal gun owners or their guns....

And that is what bothers you.........you don't care about the gun criminals....you want to be able to ban and confiscate guns from normal people.

Oh brother...

Here is a list of some murders (more recent than the 1980's) where the killers got off with light sentences:

· Delores Jean Eggert got 30 years for a 2007 murder in Arkansas.

· Debra Sue Tuggle, also from Arkansas got 10 years for one murder, no bill on the other 2. Currently free.

· Christina White set her kid on fire and killed him. Got 25 years.

· Shelly Lynn Casterline…20 years for murder in Nebraska.

· Mary York of OK…23 years after shooting and burning a 51 y/o man.

· Amber Hilbering of OK…25 years. She pushed her husband out of their high rise apartment window. This was after prosecutors offered her 5 years in a plea deal.

· Lindsey Nicole Blansett. Stabbed and killed her son in Kansas. 25 years.

· Esmie Tseng. Also of Kansas. Got 8 years for killing her mom.

Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas.... That was from about 30 minutes of research on murderpedia.com. You can look them up for yourself if you like. But we both know you won't accept any counter argument that doesn't fit your narrative.

If you want to say that murderers get off too light, I agree with you. But your insane desire to lay it all at the feet of "democratic party policies" if just a retarded preconceived notion that you harbor. Look at the states up there...Arkansas? Kansas? Nebraska? Oklahoma? And this was for about a half hour of looking on one website...

Please do try to be honest in the future. If you can force yourself to do so. Thanks.

And killers who were out on probation.....because of democrat judges, prosecutors and politicians..

Murder of Hadiya Pendleton - Wikipedia

At the time of the shooting, Ward, the gunman, was on probation. In January 2012, he had pled guilty to aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, and was sentenced to two years of probation. Less than three months later, he was arrested and charged with breaking into a car. In July 2012, he was arrested for breaking into a different vehicle. In November 2012, he was arrested for misdemeanor trespassing. During his youth, he had also been arrested numerous times on charges ranging from robbery to battery to marijuana possession, and had spent time on juvenile probation.[7]

Chief Dotson says judges are part of the gun violence problem in St. Louis city

The chief signed off on several Twitter messages on Monday, trying to alert the public, and perhaps pressure judges, to hand out harsher sentences for gun crimes.

In 2014, St. Louis circuit judges gave gun criminals probation 62 percent of the time.

The case that has the chief so upset right now involves Jamel Yates, 18, who was charged last week with allegedly killing a man he was selling a gun to in the 6000 block of Suburban.

At the time of last week's shooting, Yates was on probation on a gun charge related to a traffic stop that went badly back in February.

In April, Yates pleaded guilty to illegally carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest.

The judge gave him probation.

Now, less than six months later, Yates is charged with first degree murder, which the chief pointed out in that series of tweets issued by the department.

Back of the Yards shooters......

Back of the Yards Gunmen Wanted Revenge for Earlier Shooting: Authorities

Armed with an assault rifle and joined by several of his friends, Champ went to Cornell Square Park on Thursday night with one goal in mind: to shoot any Gangster Disciples in sight, authorities said.

Once there, he and another man unleashed a torrent of gunfire into a crowd gathered at a basketball tournament. By the time it was over, 13 people were hurt, including a 3-year-old boy with a hole in his face.

Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy and prosecutors painted that vivid picture Tuesday as they detailed the charges against four men they said were behind the attack that put the city on edge and back in the national spotlight for street violence.

And while praising police for arresting the men just days after the shooting, authorities lamented a crime they said could have been avoided.

Champ, the "main player" in the shooting, had been convicted of gun possession as a felon last year. A judge sent him to boot camp, instead of the mandatory three years in prison that McCarthy's been advocating for gun crimes all year as Chicago has continued to struggle with gun violence.

“If Bryon Champ is not on the street — as he shouldn’t have been — this incident likely does not occur," McCarthy said. “He received boot camp for that gun crime and was back out on the streets to be a part of this senseless shooting."

-----

A license to commit crime

Before they killed him, the intruders bound Frederick Tucker's hands and feet with duct tape, beat him with a pistol and seared his hips and neck with the tip of a screwdriver they heated on his kitchen stove.

Then one of them shot Tucker in the chest.

The crime was stunning for its brutality, but in another way it was remarkably ordinary: One of the murderers — the man Tucker's family is convinced orchestrated the crime — was a fugitive whom the police in Philadelphia repeatedly allowed to go free because he had left their state.

Tens of thousands of felony suspects get away as easily, because police and prosecutors across much of the United States will not pursue them beyond their state borders. For many, that decision is a license to commit new crimes, a USA TODAY investigation found. With no one chasing them, unwanted fugitives went on to rape, kidnap, rob banks and kill, often as close as in the state next door.

Another Philadelphia fugitive killed his 1-month-old daughter, Arianna Ellis, by hurling her tiny body into the wall of a Trenton, N.J., apartment. Another savagely beat and kicked 79-year-old Roosevelt Morrow during a Father's Day robbery, leaving him to die on a hallway floor outside the bathroom of his modest Salem, N.J., home.

Had they been looking, the police would have had no trouble locating Tucker's killer, or any of the others. They all were arrested in other states before they killed, a process that would ordinarily alert authorities in Philadelphia to come and get them. But in each case, because they had left Pennsylvania, police and prosecutors had decided in advance to take a less costly course and let them get away.

Gun crime under democrat party President, obama...

The Gun Debate: Gun crime prosecutions on decline, amid call for more laws
However, recent studies show the Obama administration has not enforced many gun laws already on books -- with gun crime prosecutions hitting a decade low in 2011, down 40 percent from their peak under President George W. Bush in 2004, according to federal data crunched by Syracuse University. The SU study prompted 23 House Republicans on Friday to call on President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute more people for gun-related crimes.
---

The Syracuse study found the number of federal weapons prosecutions fell from about 11,000 in 2004 to about 6,000 under the Obama administration in 2011 -- and ticked up to 7,770 in 2012.


This problem goes back a long time....

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/w...new-york-prosecuted-fewest-federal-gun-crimes

THE DISTRICTS THAT contain Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City ranked last in terms of federal gun law enforcement in 2012, according to a new report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal data.
------
The districts of Eastern New York, Central California, and Northern Illinois ranked 88th, 89th and 90th, respectively, out of 90 districts, in prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita last year, but it wasn't always this way. All three districts fell lower on the list than they had been in years past. In 2010, for example, Chicago was 78th in federal weapons prosecutions.

I just posted proof that political ideology has nothing to do with light sentences for murderers. Do you really think people read your manifestos?

Moron, it isn't a manifesto, it is a list of news articles from around the country showing that democrat party policies lead to increased gun crime.

Yeah, the 3 zillion guns on the street have nothing to do with it right moron? Amazing that the liberal governments that don’t have the 2nd amendment have much lower murder rates.

And again, you would have to explain how our gun murder rate went down 49%, our gun crime rate went down 75%, and our crime rate went down 72% as more Americans own and carry guns.........

Meanwhile, in democrat party controlled cities....they have the highest gun murder rates while having the most extreme gun control....you can't explain that.

 

[2aguy]

You can't make this up.......

Why Americans are Buying Guns: Cities Not Arresting Criminals for Many Crimes During Coronavirus Emergency - The Truth About Guns

The Philly PD has announced that they won’t make arrests for a range of crimes including drug sales, thefts, burglary, stolen cars and more. Police will detain suspects, determine — somehow — whether they’re a threat…and then turn them loose. They’ll just arrest them later, after we’re past all of this.
--------

It probably took this news about 14 minutes to make its way around the criminal community in the City of Brotherly Love. The message: it’s now open season for muggings, car theft, break-ins and more.

Similar polices (including releasing jailed non-violent criminals) are being put in place in other cities including San Francisco, Fort Worth, Denver, Los Angeles and more. Look the strategy to be employed by a city near you soon.

Long story short, there will be fewer criminals arrested and more let out of prisons over the next weeks and months. That inevitably means more crime on America’s streets. And that is why people have been lining up outside gun stores and cleaning out retailers’ inventories for almost a week now.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

You can't make this up.......

Why Americans are Buying Guns: Cities Not Arresting Criminals for Many Crimes During Coronavirus Emergency - The Truth About Guns

The Philly PD has announced that they won’t make arrests for a range of crimes including drug sales, thefts, burglary, stolen cars and more. Police will detain suspects, determine — somehow — whether they’re a threat…and then turn them loose. They’ll just arrest them later, after we’re past all of this.
--------

It probably took this news about 14 minutes to make its way around the criminal community in the City of Brotherly Love. The message: it’s now open season for muggings, car theft, break-ins and more.

Similar polices (including releasing jailed non-violent criminals) are being put in place in other cities including San Francisco, Fort Worth, Denver, Los Angeles and more. Look the strategy to be employed by a city near you soon.

Long story short, there will be fewer criminals arrested and more let out of prisons over the next weeks and months. That inevitably means more crime on America’s streets. And that is why people have been lining up outside gun stores and cleaning out retailers’ inventories for almost a week now.

That's pretty much the situation here in California, thanks to the voters suckers having allowed themselves to be deceived into voting for Proposition 47 in 2014. Large classes of crime are now committed often, with impunity, with no fear or risk of any adverse consequences for the criminals committing them.