You just caught a glimpse, my friend. You wouldn't believe how far it goes along the entire route of the justice system.
It's so easy to commit a major crime and get away with it. The FBI -- even since 9/11 -- has only about a 30% conviction rate at best, IIRC. And real crime labs are filled with the least competent people and practices you can imagine. Nobody really cares inside the justice system. They're so disillusioned with the system that all they care about after a couple of years is a light case load and a pension. They will ignore cases, "lose" evidence, and simply tell ADAs to go F&$* themselves when pressed to do footwork. One of my favorite things is "musical jurisdictions," where as long as you flee the jurisdiction in which you committed a crime, you're virtually scott-free because you're no longer their problem and they don't have the money to go looking for you -- especially when they can quickly turn easy local cases and get their stats in line with what the boss wants to show the public. "Out of sight, out of mind" for anything other than the most serious cases. Even murders are handled like this in many places under the "right" circumstances. If you're a White taxpayer victim they care a little; if you're a White victim and know someone in the power structure then they're your own private crew; if you're not White then you'd better be connected like crazy or you get no help. If you're Black or Hispanic and don't live in a really upscale neighborhood, then forget it -- they don't care about you. They even joke about it. It's pretty sick. A little Black girl goes missing and it's almost "so what?", but if a little White girl goes missing they call out the troops. It's shameful. Once you've fled the system, you're as good as disappeared as long as you don't poke your head up back home or at your mom's or girlfriend's place. Change your ID with a pro who knows what he's doing and $600 later you're a new man if you don't have an existing record. Even if they have your fingerprints on file somewhere they'll probably never look, and even then they probably won't find them. There are at present about a half million people in this country alone who have fled from the law and are still at large, the vast majority of whom are still in this country. And that's just the ones the law is supposed to be looking for. If you knew how many crimes are never solved, and then add to that the ridiculously low conviction rates at almost every level, you begin to get an idea of just how many of the people you come in contact with every day that might be criminals, from white collar crime to multiple murders. How well do you know the neighbors on your street? Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Tangorre To: CF-Community Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:00 AM Subject: Jury Duty <snip> Anyway, I thought that those of you who haven't had the opportunity to serve on a jury might find my experience interesting... I know I did. Tango ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224253 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
