To: Hennepin County
From: Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant
Re: You’re Screwed Blue
Dear HennCo
I can’t believe I missed this; your new co-chief public defender (FKA “County Prosecutor”) was sworn in this past week.. As befits an unserious person in an unserious city at an unserious time, she was sworn in on a comic book:
The new attorney of Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, took her oath of office Tuesday with her hand placed on a copy of a graphic novel about the late congressman John Lewis.
Photos from the swearing-in ceremony show Moriarty with her hand on a copy of “March,” which she described as a “graphic novel trilogy about Congress Member John Lewis and his courageous fight for voting rights.”
A comic book.
I may start rooting for the criminals at this rate.
Oh, yeah – no surprises here:
“Research and data show that non-restorative models of punishment do not prevent recidivism, do not repair families, and cause harm to a community. Incarceration, sometimes a year or more after a crime is committed, disconnects the punishment from the impact of a crime on a victim,” she says on her campaign website.
“Incarceration disconnects the person who committed violence from their community and makes reintegration extremely difficult,” the website adds. “Mary’s office will seek to provide an alternative to traditional prosecution through restorative justice as an option for victims.”
She also opposes the cash bail system, which is “not helping to make our community safer.”
So strap in, HennCo. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
Okay….
1) Cite the research and data that you are referencing.
2) Elaborate how you will implement a plan based on said research and data.
3) Show us a methodology for measuring the effectiveness of your plan.
I have an idea that none of this will be forthcoming, rather what we will see will be half-baked policies based on MPR/NPR/PBS blather that is primarily focused on pleasing suburban wine-moms who will never have to deal with the consequences of their ignorance.
A guy might think that after the catastrophes of criminality – and recall efforts – that have emerged in other places with similar prosecuting attorneys that this “unserious person in an unserious city at an unserious time” (good line) would be a bit more circumspect.
But no. Liberal to lax to just non-existent enforcement of laws is like socialism: the only reason it failed in the past is because it wasn’t done right. This time tho’…
[Derp – forgot the rule again.]
A guy might think that after the catastrophes of criminality – and recall efforts – that have emerged in other places with similar prosecuting attorneys that this “unserious person in an unserious city at an unserious time” (good line) would be a bit more circumspect.
But no. Liberal to lax to just plain non-existent enforcement of laws is like s0ci@lism: the only reason it failed in the past is because it wasn’t done right. This time tho’…
Moriarty won 57% of the vote in the final.
The top three finishers in the “non partisan” primary were DFL’rs. Together they got 70% of the HennCo vote.
The people have spoken.
Hennepin county voters have the greatest chance of being victimized by a violent criminal than the voters in any other county in MN.
This is why I say there is no hope for the metro area. There is no flicker of light at the end of the tunnel, it’s darkness all the way down. If, by some accident, Moriarty becomes a strict, law and order county attorney, HennCo voters will throw her out office on the next election day.
Time to do away with the oath of office.
An oath is a commitment to God. An oathbreaker is condemned to Eternal Hellfire. An oathbreaker is shunned from the society of believers. None of that applies in Minnesota today.
Instead public officials give affirmations, punishable by perjury, which never happens.
Supposedly, an office holder who fails to faithfully perform the duties of the office will be tossed out by the voters at the next election. No longer works in an era of ballot harvesting. Voting harder won’t get rid of the miscreants.
If there’s no hellfire consequence, no perjury consequence, and no electoral consequence for breaking your oath of office, why bother with an oath of office? She might as well swear on a comic book; the entire thing is a farce anyway.
I’m going to give all of you a morning laugh.
I hope that the mental midgets (like you Emery and Paddywhacker), are paying attention to this clown.
See? Told you that you would laugh!
Evidently Berg doesn’t read the comments. I pointed this out on Monday.
Anyway, Minnesota’s new comic book lesbian isn’t what’s important today.
Today is January 6th; a day that will forever live in infamy.
The J6 Insurrection®️ was an attack on Democracy®️. Inhumanity worse than the Holocaust™️, and if you don’t agree, you’re a terrorist. 😑
Remember, when a Democrat or a Republican uses the phrase “our democracy,” they are really saying “our racket.”
“Research and data show that non-restorative models of punishment do not prevent recidivism, do not repair families, and cause harm to a community. Incarceration, sometimes a year or more after a crime is committed, disconnects the punishment from the impact of a crime on a victim,” she says on her campaign website.
You don’t understand, Moriarty ( Good name, reminds me of Sherlock Holmes). I don’t accept your arguments. WE put people in jail because THEY VIOLATED THE LAW!!!!!!! i don’t care about repairing families, maybe it putting people in jail does not deter them from further crime when they get out, but THEY ARE OFF THE STREET AND UNABLE TO PREY ON CITIZENS WHILE THEY ARE IN JAIL. So quit accepting this progressive narrative! If i ran jails, the inmates would be in school for the morning, working in the afternoons, attending church on Sundays, and busy alll the time.
Now, if she’d taken the oath with her hand on a well-thumbed copy of The Dark Knight, I’d be impressed.
Read a weekend’s worth of mplscrimewatch and you will wonder how anyone can say that Minnesota over incarcerates. Time after time people are arrested serious crimes involving guns, drugs, and violence, and are released with time served only to recommit.
Look, what these people do — and we are talking about a small number of young offenders — is they live the gangster life, committing crime after crime until they kill someone or they are murdered themselves.
This is what Moriarty’s eccentric take on law enforcement gets you.
But the people Heenepin County have spoken, they elected Moriarty with a healthy majority.
If you live in Hennepin County, vote with your feet or kwityerbitchin.
Moriarty is cut from the same ideological cloth as radical prosecutors in Chicago, San Francisco, LA, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. She has vowed to put prosecuting police as her top priority and to impose racial quotas on whom she chooses to prosecute. By next spring criminals will know that there are few if any consequences for their actions.
Moriarty’s election will not end well for residents of Hennepin County, the criminal element excepted.
If you look at what motivates Moriarty or other prosecutors cut from the social justice cloth, it is to reduce convictions & jail time for young minority offenders. No matter how much they natter on about “safe communities,” they do not care about safe communities at all. What they care about is reducing convictions (esp. felony convictions) and jail time for young minority offenders. That’s it.
They literally believe that “over policing” causes crime, and that if you reduce policing crime will be reduced.
Remember all of those politicians (including the son of Minnesota AG Keith Ellison) who backed the “defund the police” scam? That is what they believe. That is how they talk to one another. It was only when the public pushed back that they began to deny being in favor of defunding the police, but that is what they still believe in. They now use terms “reimaging policing,” etc. But it amounts to the same thing, less cops arresting fewer people will lead to less crime.
And the voters of Hennepin county agree with Moriarty, that is why she was voted into office.
Evidently Berg doesn’t read the comments. I pointed this out on Monday.
Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don’t. #shrug.
Why pay $129.59 per day for incarceration?
I am with Moriarty. Why lock them up?
Ever wonder why God created the Aleutian Islands? Just maybe, he had this in mind?
Hey, here is a pallet of beans, have a nice life.
Exile is a time honored method of skimming the scum off society.
When we discuss the distintigration of US cities, Chicago, Detroit and Kansas city usually top the list of examples. But if you really want to see the end game, you need to ay attention to Baltimore.
Philadelphia tops my list of places I hate to go to, but Baltimore is a close second. The only reason it’s not first is because never actually had to spend any time there, my work always being across the Back river.
Baltimore is completely controlled by black, 80 IQ poverty pimps and grifters. The city proper is best described as a stinking, smoking pit of despair and constant combat. It’s more dangerous and exudes more of a 3rd world vibe than Lagos, Nigeria and has only a slightly higher percentage of White population.
It is so violent, the grifters, all black nationalists, ,have decided not to reinstate their yearly homage to MLK Jr. They say it’s because of lingering Covid, but the reason is really because of the bloody melee it is.
The former state and city prosecutors (both black women and both since indicted) had a history of simply ignoring the bloodbath, and the inhabitants had used the parade as an opportunity to settle scores.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-shootings-mlk-weekend-20190121-story.html
This is the end game for cities led by poverty pimps and/or leftists.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bs-fe-mlk-parade-canceled-again-2023-20230105-y3di5aoqtndrriiekiyds5nami-story.html
“It was unclear from the release whether the parade will ever be held again. When asked to clarify, a spokeswoman for BOPA said in an email to The Baltimore Sun that the organization would “not be making any additional statements at this time.””
Good point greg, but you didn’t go far enough. This is a perfect situation for outsourcing. Russia already invested in prison camps in siberia, they have infrastructure and trained employees just waiting to guard Minnesota convicts. I wonder how low you could drive the per day cost, if you promise to send them X number of prisoners and were not too picky about conditions of confinement or terms of release (open the gate, out you go, Alaska is three time zones that way, watch out for wolves).
Greg’s point about penal colonies reminds me of an Aussie’s comment on the U.S. founding; “Your people came to your country because of their convictions. As Australians, we can say the same.”
To the question of whether non-restorative models of punishment work, the last time I checked, putting criminals in prison prevented them, as a rule, from committing crimes against people who were not in prison. It’s telling that our “prosecutor” doesn’t mention this part.
I’m not against improving our models of incarceration to improve these outcomes–I believe Prison Fellowship has a model that greatly reduced recidivism and helped prisoners re-integrate into society. So I’m sure that Moriarty will be on this.
Seriously, what did Hennepin County voters think would happen when they elected someone named after Sherlock Holmes’ killer? Duh.
There are three reasons why we imprison criminals. Those reasons are:
-Reform
-Remove the criminal from society
-Justice
People argue about the proper balance of these three justifications.
But only lunatics argue that not incarcerating criminals prevents crime, delivers justice, and reforms the criminal into a law abiding citizen.
Definition: cruel and unusual punishment.
1) Sentencing a car-jacker to solitary confinement until they can pass high school algebra.
2) Solitary confinement until they finish (correctly) reading aloud Congress’s $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill.
3)…
Working class and middle class people in the twin Cities who thin that it is going to get better are kidding themselves.
William Walker, the attorney for Hill’s family, told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that North High School Principal Mauri Friestleben had dismissed students early that day to attend a sit-in at Minneapolis City Hall to protest the police shooting of Amir Locke. Walker says Friestleben overrode the instruction of the school district when she let students go early.
The attorney added that Hill’s parents typically picked him up from school and received no notice of the early dismissal.
“If that principal had not released those children on that day, Deshaun Hill would still be alive today,” Walker said.
Minneapolis Public Schools placed Friestleben on leave in May, and she acknowledged on social media that the district “strongly advised” her not to allow students to participate in the protest. The district changed course days later, letting her keep her job after the community rallied behind her.
“The community rallied behind her.”
Bad behavior that resulted in the death of a teen under her supervision was rewarded.
If Biden is reelected, he may name Friestleben Secretary of Education.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minneapolis-public-schools-to-approve-500k-settlement-in-deshaun-hill-jr-death/
The new attorney of Hennepin County, Mary Moriarty, took her oath of office Tuesday with her hand placed on a copy of a graphic novel about the late congressman John Lewis.
So many layers of fails . . . the person who came in 2nd in the election was a black former prosecutor. Moriarty literally white blocked her from the job, LOL.
Where is Fox Butterfield when we really need him?
UMMP, that wretched principal was never in any danger of losing her job.
CNN —
Mauri Friestleben won’t watch the video of George Floyd’s final moments.
She leans on her husband – a retired Minneapolis Police lieutenant – to view viral videos of police killings. She trusts his perspective.
“I’ve never been able to watch any of them,” Friestleben said. “He’ll tell me honestly that, ‘It might be hard to watch that one. But as a police officer, I don’t have a problem with that shooting.’”
But in May 2020, the officer in the video was wearing the same uniform that her husband, Lt. Mike Friestleben, wore before he retired.
“I handed him my phone. So, he watches it, comes back in, gives me the phone and he says, ‘I think I just watched a murder,’” said Mauri Friestleben.
“The optics are no different than slave optics 200 years ago, with hangings and burnings and things like that,” said her husband. “It’s just different technology, different weapons.”
Mike Friestlebein, who is White, met Mauri, a high school principal, in 2016 when Mike warned her to put the school into lockdown because a gunman was in the area. Mike came by in person to ensure everyone was safe. There was chemistry between the two, and they married the following year.
Mauri Friestleben is the daughter of a White mother and Black father.
said her husband
You don’t get to be a lt without knowing how to say the things that get you ahead. Maybe enough repetitions and you believe it too.
Nikole Hannah-Jones also has a black father and a white mother.
I am beginning to believe that there is some nuttiness that sticks to many such people. Taking them at their word, they are literally half oppressed and half oppressor. They literally embody both the best that they can imagine and the worst that they can imagine. Too bad they want to make us part of their psychodrama.