OUR UNDER-INCARCERATION PROBLEM,
PORTLAND BEATDOWN EDITION
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| Mr. Love with his latest victim |
Marquise Love is the thug who was caught on video viciously assaulting Adam Haner in Portland, Oregon the other day during a “protest.” Love knocked Haner unconscious. Police now have Love in
custody.
custody.
As is almost always true in publicized cases involving serious felonies, Love has a long rap sheet. In a well-functioning criminal justice system, he would be in prison. In our ultra-lenient system, he was
free to cause mayhem.
Love is only 25 year old, but his criminal history dates back to at least 2012. According to this report, he was arrested twice that year. The charges included second-degree theft, criminal trespass, and interfering with public transportation. He pleaded guilty to the latter charge and was sentenced to 18 months probation and a $500 fine,. Apparently, the other charges were dismissed.
Two years later, Love was charged with violating his probation. In the same year, 2016, he was convicted for driving without a valid driver’s license and without insurance. A short time later, still in 2016, he convicted was again for the same offenses.
Incredibly, Love was arrested two more times in 2016. One arrest was for providing false information in connection with the transfer of a firearm. The other was for domestic assault and criminal trespass
Then, in 2017, Love was arrested for domestic assault and domestic harassment. Apparently, he wasn’t prosecuted, but his guilt was obvious enough that a judge signed a protective order against him.
Most recently, Love was convicted in 2019 for failing to appear in court to answer charges of again driving with a suspended or revoked license. Reportedly, Loves owes thousands of dollars in unpaid fines from his various convictions.
As far as I can tell, Love hasn’t served any jail time in spite of his convictions, probation violations, and failure to pay fines.
Through his actions, Love has shown both a propensity for violence and a chronic lack of regard for the law. Yet he was never punished in any meaningful sense. Instead, he remained free to roam the streets and assault the innocent.
Our criminal justice system is far too lenient. Nonetheless, leftists and some conservatives strive to make it even more forgiving.
Sounds like Chicago, which is the reason you never see any of this on mainstream media.
ReplyDeleteThere is an old saying:
ReplyDelete"You get more of what you reward,
And less of what you punish".
This is why a progressive income tax is wrong, and why our current Injustice system is feeding the monster of societies' destruction.
While there may be a few truly "victimless" crimes (simple possession of controlled substances are frequently cited*).
ALL crime does have as it's heart a victim - Society.
When Society decides to reward and encourage crimes, why should we be surprised when we not only see repeat offenders, but those offenders progress to bigger and even sometimes more violent crimes. Why would they choose to change their ways when society has encouraged them to continue on their chosen path?
* I tend to disagree that most simple possession are not in fact victimless, especially for those individuals with no obvious means of support, no job, no savings...yet they can magically have in their possession very expensive and illegal substances. Does anyone really think they were given these things free of charge? How did the individual magically acquire the resources to purchase these items? Drug addiction should be treated, NOT encouraged. Part of that treatment is to punish those who enable the industry, from the user, to the seller, to the supplier, to the politician who ensures the flow of traffic through our borders, to the countries who produce.
MSG Grumpy
Let Chicago Police bring back "WOODEN SHAMPOO " IT WILL bring the nonsense to an end
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