News Philadelphia gas station hires heavily armed guards

[13Gigatons]

The DA would have nothing to do with releases from prison. Do you have any understanding of how the country you live in works?

The DA often won't file charges so a crook walks, or they put them on ankle monitor which doesn't stop them from committing more crimes. Stop being snarky and taking cheap shots.

 

[fskimospy]

The DA often won't file charges so a crook walks, or they put them on ankle monitor which doesn't stop them from committing more crimes. Stop being snarky and taking cheap shots.

The DA has nothing to do with people being released from prison.

Do you understand how America works?

 

[Vic]

You left out the DA and Judge who keep letting criminals out. One guy was robbing a house, he was surprised to find two people home so he killed them both. He was caught and sentenced to 8 years in prison. He was let out early. He then committed more crimes.

Clearly not the Police's fault.

DAs and sentencing judges have nothing to do with early releases, and recidivism cases following early release are isolated instances.

The actual problem is low police clearance rates. What that means, in simplest terms, is that most reported crimes go unsolved. For example, the Philadelphia Police's clearance rate for murder in 2020 was 42%. That means 58% of all murders committed in Philadelphia in 2020 went unsolved. Not unprosecuted because of some soft on crime DA or some lenient sentence due to some limp-wristed judge. UNSOLVED. 58%.

Murderers in Philly know that they have a 58% chance of getting away with it clean. Even better if they're smart. And that is entirely on the police.

And you probably won't believe how bad the clearance rate is for lesser crimes. The overall rate is only 8%! Think about that. A person can commit a crime in Philly and there's a 92% chance the police might not even identify a suspect.

But you keep blaming the DAs and the judges who are never even given a case by the police to prosecute.

 

[Vic]

200K is plenty of money but not every officer is paid that much.

If all they're gonna do is sit in their cruisers their whole shifts and play candy crush, like you're ok with, then I don't believe they should be paid anything.

 

[darkswordsman17]

If all they're gonna do is sit in their cruisers their whole shifts and play candy crush, like you're ok with, then I don't believe they should be paid anything.

They should be billed for that behavior. Or if they need money so bad they can let 13Gigatongues lick their taints and assholes since he seems to have a fetish for it.

 

[brycejones]

The DA often won't file charges so a crook walks, or they put them on ankle monitor which doesn't stop them from committing more crimes. Stop being snarky and taking cheap shots.

I am sure you have data to provide on your ankle monitor talking point. Link it up.

As for prosecutors not charging people that sounds like a lazy police problem. Prosecutors work off of evidence developed by the police. If they aren’t charging people then it’s a policing issue.

 

[pmv]

I am sure you have data to provide on your ankle monitor talking point. Link it up.

The ankle-monitor comment reminded me of a ludicrous case we had here (in UK) once. Which I recall as being an example of how things go wrong when services previously performed by the state are contracted out to the private sector.

Though when I googled it I found more cases than just the one I remembered.


Happened in 2009

Access Restricted

and in 2011:

Pair Sacked For Putting Tag On False Leg

Two security workers have been sacked after placing an electronic tag on an offender's false leg, allowing him to remove them and breach his curfew.

news.sky.com

(Interesting name that guy has - reminds me I haven't got round to playing the Shadow Warrior remake)

and happened again in 2017:

Security tag is fitted to man’s prosthetic leg

A MAN found it difficult not to laugh when an electronic tag was fitted to his prosthetic leg.

www.echo-news.co.uk

(All three cases involving private companies well-known for winning government contracts for almost everything - G4S and Capita)

And, of course, when the same thing happened in the US the outcome was much less comical, and somebody ended up getting shot

In deadly mistake, ankle monitor put on man's fake leg

www.fox6now.com

 

[hal2kilo]

DAs and sentencing judges have nothing to do with early releases, and recidivism cases following early release are isolated instances.

The actual problem is low police clearance rates. What that means, in simplest terms, is that most reported crimes go unsolved. For example, the Philadelphia Police's clearance rate for murder in 2020 was 42%. That means 58% of all murders committed in Philadelphia in 2020 went unsolved. Not unprosecuted because of some soft on crime DA or some lenient sentence due to some limp-wristed judge. UNSOLVED. 58%.

Murderers in Philly know that they have a 58% chance of getting away with it clean. Even better if they're smart. And that is entirely on the police.

And you probably won't believe how bad the clearance rate is for lesser crimes. The overall rate is only 8%! Think about that. A person can commit a crime in Philly and there's a 92% chance the police might not even identify a suspect.

But you keep blaming the DAs and the judges who are never even given a case by the police to prosecute.

Bet they make their traffic violation quotas though.