On Apr 28, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Mugsy Lunsford wrote: > Is it laziness or willful refusal to search for the real culprit?
I seriously think it's an attitude on the part of law enforcement and the prosecution to believe that they never do anything wrong, that their 'gut' feeling is always right, and the quicker they lock up and convict someone for a crime, the better, chalk up a 'win' in their column. "If he didn't do this one, theres lots more he got away with" Also, our court system long ago gave up any pretense of being about the 'truth' in favor of a gladiatorial system where 'winning' is all that matters. After all, gotta keep up the state's contract with those private prisons and keep 'em full: <http://themoderatevoice.com/139334/considering-the-policy-consequences-of-private-prisons/> And we already put more people in prison for longer than anywhere else in the industrialized world. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/us/21iht-letter21.html?pagewanted=all> Even FOX admits we spend more per capita on prisons than we do on schools. <http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/14/states-spend-times-incarcerating-educating-studies-say-464156987/> Hows that 'three strikes' law working out for yah, Francis? <http://economic101.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/california-spends-five-times-more-on-prisoners-than-students/> And companies like CCA aim to keep it that way. I cannot think of any way that these companies are beneficial to society. Their only aim is to create more prisoners, meaning more crime. And, given the economic impact incarcerating someone has outside of the costs of their incarceration (court costs, lost income, increased impoverishment of their families, etc) it doesn't make any sense to keep on this path. It's as if they WANT the US to collapse into a crime-ridden hell, much like Texas is. (It has to be a complete hell there, doesn't it? I mean they execute so many people there it just HAS to reflect an orders-of-magnitude greater incidence of crime. It couldn't be that they have rigged the system in favor of state-sanctioned murder for crass political ends and institutionalized racism, can it? <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/execution/readings/texas.html>) -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
