Unserious
By Mitch Berg
The Sentencing Guidelines Commission has issued a report on how gun crime is dealt with in Minnesota.
It’s pretty putrid:
OF 958 convictions for gun crimes in MInnesota for a year ending last June, 413 had their mandatory minimum sentenes waived.
That was for the entire state. Any guesses on how that breaks down with Metro vs. Greater MN numbers?
Let’s look at the big stats – convictions and minimum sentences – for the four largest metro Counties:
| County | Convictions | Below Minimum | Percentage below Minimum Sentence | |
| Hennepin | 429 | 222 | 52% | |
| Ramsey | 163 | 86 | 53% | |
| Anoka | 33 | 17 | 42% | |
| Dakota | 60 | 23 | 38% | |
| Four Metro Counties | 685 | 348 | 51% | |
| The other 83 counties, combined | 273 | 65 | 24% |
Literally half of the people conviced of committing a crime with a gun in the Metro are given less than the state’s minimum sentence for the act – double the rate of the rest of the state.
January 17th, 2024 at 11:51 am
I’m endlessly informed by Liberals that Blacks are punished worse than Whites in our justice system. But I’m informed by the Center of the American Experiment that the claim is just a myth; in fact, Whites are treated more harshly than Blacks. “Dispelling the Myth, David Zimmer, August 2023.”
So looking at these sentencing stats and knowing the Black population is concentrated in the metro which is where most of the criminals got a break, nobody wants to ask the obvious question? Nobody? Okay, I’ll do it.
What is the racial breakdown of those who got a break versus those who did not?
Are the Liberals correct or are the Conservatives?
Oh, I looked at the Report. It’s massive. It must have taken ages to compile. It’s got statistics backwards, forwards and sideways, but I can’t find the answer to the question that matters most. Maybe one of you can point me to the right page.
Who got the breaks?
https://mn.gov/sentencing-guidelines/assets/2024MinnSentencingGuidelinesCommReportLegislature_tcm30-606537.pdf
January 17th, 2024 at 12:31 pm
Okay, I’ll do it
Thanks. It needs to be asked… just confirmed actually. Crime w/ guns is through the roof in the metro (especially when compared to the rest of the state), but it’s Phil in Thief River Falls whose guns needs to be confiscated.
January 17th, 2024 at 12:43 pm
… it occurs to me to wonder – because no conspiracy theory seems too outlandish anymore – do the DemoCommies actually want gun crime as high as it is because it keeps the topic of gun confiscation front and center in the realm of “common sense” politics?
January 17th, 2024 at 12:52 pm
jdm,
Just like the abortion issue, gun crimes are boogeyman items that the DemoCommies can use to rile up their droogs. The illegal immigration issue, could have been resolved years ago. Trump was the first elected person to actually do something about it, but, as soon as Pedo Pete got in, he cancelled everything that Trump enacted, that was working. The one thing that Reagan did that really ticked me off, was his amnesty crap. The majority of the people that he gave a free pass to, ended up voting for DemoCommies.
January 17th, 2024 at 1:02 pm
Another question: What percentage of those convicted of gun crimes were prohibited from possessing a firearm and were not also convicted under the Federal add-on of the minimum five-year sentence?
January 17th, 2024 at 1:50 pm
The thing that is also striking is the portion of cases–that gray region on the left–that are not charged at all (69/1805), dismissed (377/1805), or “other outcome” (172). So of 1805 gun cases–judging by the acquittal rate, they’re generally open and shut “you have a gun here and you’re not allowed to”–we see 618 (over a third) of them are dismissed or “other outcome”, and 413 are a “mandatory minimum waived”. So that’s, as far as I can tell, 55-60% of all cases where illegal use of a gun is alleged not being punished.
Might be a very interesting story why that might be.
January 17th, 2024 at 2:48 pm
Regarding whether blacks are especially blessed this way, yes. Look at page 38, and it seems to indicate that women are also especially blessed; there is a “p***y pass”, so to speak, at least in terms of dismissals prior to trial. Worst examples of departures from ordinary minima seem to be in the second and fourth judicial districts, which is of course Ramsey and Hennepin.
One thing that is also key here is that there are a number of firearm felonies–look at the list in the second half of the document–that might be said are not terribly worrisome to most of us. For example, possession of a firearm on school property. So if a parent’s been to the range and has a gun in his/her trunk while picking up Junior, I think that technically, that’s a felony, but it’s one that if prosecuted, the DA is going to lose his job. So we would want to figure out what portion of these are not really that big of crimes.
January 18th, 2024 at 8:44 am
On a related note, after Ohio implemented lawful C&C, the crime rate in their 6 largest cities, took a big drop.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/ohio-sees-drop-in-gun-violence-after-adopting-constitutional-carry/ar-AA1nb8Yr