A few years back in Nashville, the local newspaper sent a couple of reporters to live in the projects for a few months to do an exposé. I don't recall what the guy pretended to be, out of work maybe, but the woman pretended to be a manicure student. Anyway, they wrote a very revealing piece after a time. And the scattah hit the fan. The people who lived there were indignant and had everyone to know that they had a strong sense of 'community' etc. etc. etc. Eventually the newspaper issued an apology to the 'community.' Plenty of people who live in the projects are invested in living there. They refuse to go anywhere else. Not only that, but you need to think of some of the cultural issues working here. Plenty of project dwellers get money to go to school. But it is their home 'neighborhood.' All their family and friends live there. It is most uncomfortable for a lot of people to leave their old diggs. And then there is the social pressure that is exerted on the person for trying to be ' uppity and better than the rest of us.' In order to leave, they have to cut ties with everyone they hold dear. You simply cannot understand the pressures that are working there unless you have had some exposure to them.
Of course I would never live there if there was any way around it. But my family and friends aren't there.
Everyone has an excuse for everything. Don't feed me that you're too attached to the ghetto because you have friends and/or family living there and then complain about living there. You say there's a sense of "community". I assume it's that "community" spirit and love for your homies in the ghetto with you that makes the ghetto such a safe and happy place to live.
Then, perhaps you should have opted for clarity and said, 'they.' You did not. So now in addition to not reading, adding correctly, or expressing yourself correctly, your thinking is completely muddled. Try again. This one was an epic fail!
Indeed, but public policy is made by our elected representatives and is thus subject to change.
Maybe, but it is still very rare for cases to go to trial regardless of type or level.
As for vast variation in sentences, for even the same crime, that is a fact I will not attempt to dispute; that too, requires justice sytem/law changes.
Thanks for providing some important data supporting my argument that the expected number of innocent who die will be less if you just put those convicted of murder to death. If what you've presented is true then this could have been prevented by killing the POS years ago.
By that logic we won't have any killings if we just go ahead kill everyone off.
You are exaggerating the heck out of what I said. The ultimate objective here is to minimize the suffering of the innocent, which obviously isn't accomplished by what you said. With forensic science today, I hypothesize that the wrongful conviction rate of murder is lower than the number of repeat murderers. Furthermore, the number of victims of repeat offenders is obviously greater than the number of repeat offenders.
You are exaggerating the heck out of what I said. The ultimate objective here is to minimize the suffering of the innocent, which obviously isn't accomplished by what you said. With forensic science today, I hypothesize that the wrongful conviction rate of murder is lower than the number of repeat murderers. Furthermore, the number of victims of repeat offenders is obviously greater than the number of repeat offenders.
seems to me burning at the stake would be the appropriate death for someone who ambushes brave firefighters
And the firefighters can take turns trying to piss out the fire, while it is burning. LOL.
hopefully after drinking large quantities of high proof cocktails!!
Please, no talk of alcohol. I am still hung over from the after party at my gig yesterday. LOL.
All we need are more guns to take care of these sonsofguns.
How about a justice system that sentences murderers to more than 17 years? Maybe a dude that beat his mother to death with a claw hammer should have been sent to the electric chair? These murders wouldn't have happened, if that this goofball would have been snuffed years ago.
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