Intruders, Police and Crime
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Originally Posted by
JimF4M1s
the face of a young 16/17 year old
Just read a story of a lady in Chicago that had a knock on the door, mid afternoon. Looked out at a 'young smiling face', opened the door and received a shot of pepper spray in the face. A number of them ran in and robbed her of her valuables. She was kept facing the floor with a throw blanket thrown over her. She couldn't ID anyone.
We live in a small town, seldom seeing someone of color. But crime is everywhere and skin color doesn't matter. I've told my wife to never unlock the storm door, unless she knows who it is. And to beware no matter the age. I'm just not the trusting type.
Any major highway per the Feds is now a Drug alley. I often see State troopers with cars pulled over on the Detroit to Lansing to Flint to Saginaw to Grand Rapids to Chicago highways with K9 searches.
These often young gang members don't fear jail. If caught they aren't worried about 5-7 years in jail, if using a gun while committing. These are the Valuable street level earners. The very first to make bail, and back on the street earning. While a petty theft guy can't make bail.
Excerpts from Chicago Tribune:
Bond amounts for felony gun crimes doubled
In 2012 the median bond amount for felony gun charges was $25,000. In 2016 it rose by $25,000 to $50,000 while bonds for other felonies stayed even or fell.
But over the same time period, the average number of days a defendant spends in jail before posting bond for a gun charge has fallen by more than half, from 42 to 18 days.
Nonviolent, poor inmates languish in jail while those accused of violent crimes with access to money — like gang members — are released onto the streets to commit new crimes.
A lot of the shootings occur by repeat gun offenders, which are with the gangs. So when those guys get picked up, for whatever reason, who do you think the gangs are going to bail out first? They bail out the shooters because they are the most valuable pieces to that gang organization. Because they aren't afraid to use violence to get their message across. So what we see is just an unbelievable cycle of arresting these guys, and then for whatever reason, the judicial system spits them right back out, only to be dealt with … again and again.
Shootings are up but arrests are down
Shooting incidents in 2016 jumped more than 42 percent compared to 2012. Arrests for gun charges, meanwhile, dropped 9 percent since then. In the same time period the number of firearm recoveries, as well as firearm-recovery arrests, have plunged. Firearm recovery arrests dropped by 9 percent, and gun recoveries fell by about 33 percent, from 12,650 in 2012 to 8,416 last year, according to police data.
If Police are involved in a shooting, beside their own safety, they've put their careers in limbo and possible legal charges. All to see repeat shooters back on the streets in as little as 48hrs or less.
And they wonder why the police are stepping back?
I don't believe there will be any improvement until using a gun sentences become much stricter........ and no bond.
In Detroit some say a High Priority 911 call may be a 58-minute average response time.
Bottom Line: Be prepared to protect your family and property.
FWIW
CH-P777