The house DFL caucus is starting to “take a crime seriously”.
Or at least that’s what the headlines are intended to say: “In response, we are already drafting bills based on the input of all stakeholders”
All?
Well, not all the stakeholders. Not the party that currently holds the minority in the Minnesota house.
There’s a reason for that, of course; this has nothing to do with fighting crime, and everything to do with fighting the perception that the majority party in the Minnesota house is nothing but a pack of feckless felon coddlers.
In other words, a public relations stunt to pray on a news media that serves as little but a bunch of feckless DFL coddlers.
Just more gun control laws on the law abiding?
I’m from Wisconsin, are these 6 Reps, or Dems?
Here are the obstacles to reducing crime in Minneapolis and Saint Paul:
Democrat politicians, lawyers and judges.
All of these people, whether they truly believe it or not, have adopted the Critical Race Theory framework when addressing crime and criminals.
You can get idea of that CRT framework by reading this paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269758021993339
An important quote: “The racialized affect of being the (un)victim is greater than the effects of minor crime on the victim. ”
Yep. It means exactly what you think it means. Arresting and jailing black criminals causes more harm than the crime that they committed.
This is how the judicial system has been corrupted in Hennepin and Ramsey County. This is why so many people who have been arrested or convicted of serious crimes like car jacking and assault are roaming the streets. The judges and prosecutors believe that, whatever the black criminal has done, the people that he has hurt, putting the black criminal in jail for a lengthy period of time harms society more.
It’s true, MP, not one mention in that letter about putting away criminals so they can’t prey on others.
I have been saying for a long time now that people don’t know what their jobs are anymore. Police officers are mental health and social welfare workers. DAs are social justice warriors fighting the man and changing the system, teachers are indoctrinators who encourage revolution. Because there is this confusion, civil order –the primary function of government-is falling apart.
It is corruption, again. Lisa Long, the writer of the paper referenced cannot even call a criminal a criminal, or even an “offender.” In criminal offenses, their is not a criminal and victim, their is victim and (un)victim.
When this theory is put into practice in the real world, black criminals are put through a special revolving door in the justice system, and no one notices or cares, other than the criminal and his victim. Until the guy gets on the evening news by killing someone getting killed himself.
It used to be that serious consequences began with serious assault charges or using a weapon while committing a crime. Not anymore, at least not in Hennepin or Ramsey county.
This literally the first line on the web page of Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman: “In 2017, we successfully prosecuted two cases against racists: A jury found Allen Scarsella guilty of shooting and wounding five men who were peacefully protesting outside the 4th Precinct police station and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In a separate case, Anthony Sawina was also found guilty and was sentenced to 39 years in prison for shooting at five young Muslim men in a car in Dinkytown.”
Further on the page Freeman brags about putting cops in jail, while diverting 538 adult offenders and 2045 youth offenders out of the criminal justice system.
At least we know we’re going to get rid of bad cops. Oh, wait…
Sheriff Hutch, 10 days before totaling his county vehicle while DUI:
“We want to praise and hold our good cops and deputies to the highest standard possible, support them 100% of the time,” he said. “But if cops do stupid stuff and they break the law, they break policy, let’s get rid of them!”
SC justices have four clerks whose job it is to do research for the justice on case law and what questions to ask during oral arguments. Sotomayor’s current clerks are Whitney Brown, Amit Jain, Katherine Munyan and Kelley Schiffman. Three are female, three are Yale grads, one is out of UCLA law school.
Sheriff Gay-ve isn’t a cop, NW, he’s a DFL operative holding a position as a functionary. His job is to hold it, like a beachhead, and support any DFL efforts to expand and conquer more bureaucratic territory.
We used to understand that if guilty parties were not punished, we would get more guilty behavior. Evidently that proposition of logic is being forgotten…
We used to understand…
That “we” is an exaggeration, bike. Look up the (Fox) Butterfield Effect.
jdm: OK, OK, OKAY. Darnit.
Also on the light side, when I visited this site this morning, I read the title as “Layers and layers of Toddlers.” OK, if the shoe fits…..obviously kick it off and run across the room screaming and breaking things while sticking things up your nose.
Not a bad picture of the maturity of thought we’ve got in this country among the ruling elites. “Huh, let’s stop putting criminals in jail….what could possibly go wrong?”