tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post7607710144892453510..comments2024-03-29T06:50:50.543-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The unpleasant reality of crime and rehabilitationPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-18265609104768320262016-01-07T14:26:58.061-06:002016-01-07T14:26:58.061-06:00If you want less criminals . Its actually really e...If you want less criminals . Its actually really elemental stuff, its just politically impossible and in fact unwanted. <br /><br /><br />#1 Insist on intact male headed stable families.<br /><br />#2 Insist on closed borders and a more homogeneous anti-crime culture. <br /><br />#3 Have less crimes. In most cases "no victim, no crime." is a good motto. <br /><br />#4 Have stable employment and laws that prevent workers from being used as fungible commodities. <br /><br />#5 Have a broad range of jobs for people of different temperaments. There are people who as you noted are bored and impulsive but given useful work to do and supervision can be kept from preying on people.<br /><br />#6 Have a good apolitical mental health system<br /><br /><br />Do these things and you can basically close most of your prisons. A.B. Prospernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-82652180910126379672016-01-06T20:54:51.397-06:002016-01-06T20:54:51.397-06:00The crime rate and the recidivism rate can never g...The crime rate and the recidivism rate can never go down over any meaningful period of time. "All government, seeks more control, always" - Hershel Smith. Therefore, more rules and more rules broken, always. We could keep the "hard" criminals in prison, OK, but the numbers will not be less.<br />You mention Drug Dealing. Prohibition does not work. Outlawing drugs creates allure, causes prices to skyrocket, and sweeps the results into the shadows. The allure causes more first time takers, The prices skyrocketing causes violent criminal war, and by sweeping the problem underground it hides the results from 9 yr old's who, if they saw it would think; "yuck, that is to be avoided, look at those people." And as far as criminal charges for users is concerned, what one does where there is no intent, no victim, and no realized offense against another, the criminals in this case are those that draft and implement such "laws". <br />Your conclusion is correct. For those whose first and natural career choice is crime, then crime does pay.Frednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-44292028462168525372016-01-06T19:08:07.079-06:002016-01-06T19:08:07.079-06:00Something that I've noted is that many felons ...Something that I've noted is that many felons have minimal ability to think about the future. Now is big, tomorrow is doable, next week isn't on the radar at all. In days of yore, these folks were employable as ranch/farm hands, miners, factory workers and soldiers. They'd live at the ranch house/company apartment/barracks, get their food from the farm kitchen/company store/dining hall, a foreman/boss/officer would handle the planning.<br /><br />The farms and ranches are mechanized and need fewer people, same with mining and factories. There isn't much call for folks who can't plan ahead, we have robots to do the repetitive tasks. What do we do with the people who can't think abstractly? Putting them on welfare and paying them to have more children is... counterproductive in a national sense.tweellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164718561825615886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-26828527715387810302016-01-06T15:40:39.315-06:002016-01-06T15:40:39.315-06:00What do you do with the ones that truly want to tu...What do you do with the ones that truly want to turn their life around? <br /><br />As far as I can tell, "paying your debt to society" is forever on-going and does not end when you are off parole or served your term. A decent job will not be forthcoming for any but a very minuscule minority. <br /><br />With today's electronic files and lack of a new frontier, a fresh start does not exist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-74404168799729403562016-01-06T14:55:31.029-06:002016-01-06T14:55:31.029-06:00I just got back from court. One of the cases befo...I just got back from court. One of the cases before the one I'm on was a parole revocation hearing. All the defendant had to do was hold down a job and comply with probation and, if that was done, the charges would have been dismissed and the defendant would have walked away with no record.<br /><br />Sweet deal, no?<br /><br />Defendant couldn't or wouldn't do it. So the defendant went away for seven years, with the cuffs being applied right then and there and off to the local jail for later transport to prison.<br /><br />Dumb fuck.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-11966357339524314672016-01-06T14:12:12.399-06:002016-01-06T14:12:12.399-06:00Education serves no purpose. They then get pushed...Education serves no purpose. They then get pushed into a job market that is already saturated with low and no skilled people. Even if you turn them all into computer programmers, the only job they will be able to get is hacking you and maybe identity theft.<br /><br />If one really thinks that "if only these guys had other opportunities", then maybe he should stop killing their opportunities by giving everything away to immigrants.<br /><br />In the building where I work, the entire cleaning staff is Guatemalan (and I don't work in Guatemala). None speak English. All are working and getting paid. What "education" does prison teach that is currently keeping criminals from applying for these jobs? 1. How to use an alarm clock. 2. How to follow instructions. 3. Yes, the boss is in charge. 4. You may not take stuff home with you, it's not yours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-66177536734394335392016-01-06T12:21:37.335-06:002016-01-06T12:21:37.335-06:00FarmGirl is right on the mark. "Witnesses&qu...FarmGirl is right on the mark. "Witnesses" do not want to go to court, and actually stand up in public and under oath, tell what they have seen, or know. They'd just as soon see someone arrested for their "truthful" information, no matter how good their information really is. But, God help the officer who would arrest them for slander, which the officer has not heard! That's unConstitutional! <br />And then there is winter, and homelessness is not comfortable. Food is hard to find.<br /> But, you also can't have the lawless running the streets! It is a conundrum. trailbeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06830065132795330618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23613486393827485882016-01-06T12:17:31.033-06:002016-01-06T12:17:31.033-06:00I have a brother that is a guard at a local prison...I have a brother that is a guard at a local prison where, "education, education, education," is taken to an extreme. A few years ago they had a new inmate that was forced into GED classes because he couldn't "prove" he had a high school diploma. Having a Master's in Biology was seen as insufficient proof. DOC gets more federal money for every inmate that takes GED classes, so every one of them MUST go to GED classes.Brucenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-26725745956611903202016-01-06T11:59:55.243-06:002016-01-06T11:59:55.243-06:00Being in a small town, where we know who our offen...Being in a small town, where we know who our offenders are, and working with law enforcement, where the phrase "it's not what you know, it's what you can prove" is proven right more often than not, I'm gonna say that in my experience, it's not so much that they'll offend again within five years, as they'll get caught offending again within five years.<br /><br />I deal with entirely too many calls that go something like the following to believe that offenders wait for any length of time to re offend, if they're going to. "hey, so-and-so is doing this illegal thing, and you know they just got out of jail/prison for the exact same thing." "I'll advise my officers, can I get your name and phone number please?" "Oh, I want to be anonymous, just go arrest them." FarmGirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07109427921448753169noreply@blogger.com