Quote (Goomshill @ Nov 22 2021 11:50pm)

They passed a controversial bail reform law last year, which eliminated bail entirely and just divides crimes into 'released without bail' and 'remand', and virtually everything short of capital offenses are release without bail. No amount of bail jumping, violent assaults, DUIs, weapon charges, etc will ever get you held in jail. Coupled with their standard dismissal of charges / downward departures / suspended sentences, its pretty common for people to have 30+ arrests and not spend a day in jail or prison. It also created this very obvious problem where they don't even hold people in jail for skipping their court dates, thus allowing people to just ignore the system entirely, since even if they are tried in absentia they just get a suspended sentence instead of a prison sentence. Then, just to make it insulting to sane people, they added in a bounty system where people who show up for their court dates get handed free swag bags when released, given gift cards, baseball game tickets, cash, etc.

A pretty good example of how it politics overrides their system on paper is when the law first got excoriated in the national press with the Tiffany Harris case, who committing numerous hate crimes against orthodox jewish women. She'd assault some jew, get arrested, get released, assault another jew, get arrested get released, etc. As soon as she was released. When the story took off, they eventually just held her on a psychiatric observation to get around the bail law, then charged her with federal hate crimes under a felony statute that allowed remand since it wasn't a state law. Then released her again anyway, but I think that was the end of it since they actually could and would hold her on the federal charges

Quote (Kayeto @ Nov 23 2021 01:12am)

If the same harm had been inflicted by a gun instead of a car, what would have been the headline: the shooter's name or the model of gun used?

Didn't the media actually make the habit of not publishing shooter's names, claiming they didn't want the person to get fame off it? They wanted to make sure the narrative was focused on the guns.

But when it's done with a car, they make sure that the killer's name is front and center. It shows their agenda.

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Chisholm, who was elected in 2007, supports deferrals for some misdemeanors and "low-level" felonies in order to cut down on incarcerations. And he's taken credit for inspiring a new wave of prosecutors in cities like San Francisco, St. Louis, and Philadelphia who have enacted similar reforms. Chisholm congratulated San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin following his election in 2019, and the pair spoke at a forum earlier this year on the status of the progressive prosecutor movement.

Chisholm and other progressives support reforms to the cash-bail system, which they say criminalizes poverty. He has acknowledged that his reform-minded approach could put murderers back on the streets of Milwaukee.

"Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into [a] treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody?" he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2007. "You bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach."

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Chisholm has blamed "false information" and "deliberately manipulated" scare stories about rising crime for the sense of unease that is powering opposition to progressive prosecutors. "The progressive message is very difficult to get through," he has acknowledged, noting that he has repeatedly been the target of "conservative dark money" campaigns aimed at unseating him.

Chisholm has won favorable attention from leftwing criminal justice reformers for collaborating with the Wisconsin public defender, the state unit responsible for representing indigent defendants in court. Chisholm and a coauthor described that work in an extensive 2019 paper for the Harvard Kennedy School.

By their telling, prosecutors, public defenders, and community leaders work together to develop "community-oriented" practices that range from "antiracism" initiatives to diversionary programs for offenders they judge to be "low risk."

"In most cases, the punitive function of the criminal justice system must be recognized as subordinate to the system's preventive and remedial functions," the paper reads. "Punishment is appropriate only when it advances a preventive or remedial purpose."

Elsewhere in the paper, the pair write that punishment should never be the principal objective of a given defendants' case, even in "cases which threaten public health and safety in such primary ways that punishment is a key component of the response."

Quote (Goomshill @ Nov 22 2021 11:13pm)

Here's liberal DA John Chisholm, the same guy now backtracking and claiming that Brook's bail was "inappropriately low", in his own words:





They elected a progressive DA on the promise of bail reform and decriminalization. He followed through and turned his district into a revolving door jail system just like other liberal cities around America these past few years.
And now the completely foreseeable has occurred.

Quote (WickedDarkJuggalos @ Nov 22 2021 10:45pm)

I was watching live earlier as a podcaster had a crazy amount of info on the driver, as well as the police radio recording from when they identified and arrested him. He even had his social media selfie videos about why he is a sex offender. On the other screen was cnn live saying they don’t even know if the suspect was a man or a woman.

It is extremely obvious the left leaning media is trying to hold off on anything about this because it was a black career criminal out on bail for running a woman over at a gas station two weeks ago.

I believe this proves an agenda much more than reporters simply reporting the information that is known already.

Quote (proccy @ Nov 22 2021 11:18pm)

this just a bunch o folks who watch crowder on youtube and think they know about politics?

pard is dying quickly folks

Quote (proccy @ Nov 23 2021 01:18am)

this just a bunch o folks who watch crowder on youtube and think they know about politics?

pard is dying quickly folks