As homicides soar nationwide, mayors see few options for regaining control ...“We have done almost all we can do,” said Van Johnson, the mayor of Savannah, Ga. [More]
No, you haven't seen how bad what those like you are making inevitable is going to get.
“We have done almost all we can do,”
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Identify the "bad actors" (hint, your street level patrol officers know who they are.)
Pick them up.
Put them in jail.
Leave them there until they are proven not to be "bad actors" anymore. Or as one particularly astute American has opined, until they can be trusted without a custodian.
Criminal justice system records from across the country all point to the same fact. Ninety percent of violent crime is perpetrated by a hard core ten percent of career criminals. Take them off the streets and ninety percent of your violent crime problem is solved.
As one of Limbaugh's callers said "It ain't rocket surgery."
"Ninety percent of violent crime is perpetrated by a hard core ten percent of career criminals."
ReplyDeleteCBS News Transcripts, SHOW: CBS MORNING NEWS (6:30 AM ET), April 27, 1994, WASHINGTON DC POLICE TRACKING GUN CRIMES WITH COMPUTERS FIND A PATTERN TO VIOLENCE AND KILLING
JIM STEWART reporting: Last year, 467 people were murdered in Washington, DC, so police here figured they had about that many killers to round up. But that was before two new computerized ballistics tests revealed that in dozens of cases, the same guns were being used over and over again...
Altogether, 58 recent violent crimes in Washington have been linked by the pilot programs to just a handful of gunmen...
The new technology confirms what police have long suspected: that somewhere out there there's a hard-core group of killers responsible for what most people think of as just random violence...