Latest fail of justice

[buildit]

A thread for folks to post the epics failures of justice in the USA.

A Chicago woman involved in a beating of a mentally disabled man that was shown on Facebook Live has pleaded guilty to a hate crime and been placed on probation for four years.

Nineteen-year-old Brittany Covington entered her plea Friday in a case that received national attention because it involved a white victim and four blacks who taunted him with profanities against white people and now-President Donald Trump.

Covington has been in jail since January when the video, which she narrated, surfaced. Her three co-defendants remain in custody and their cases are pending.

In exchange for pleading guilty to committing a hate crime, aggravated battery and intimidation, prosecutors dropped a kidnapping charge and others.

The judge ordered Covington to not use social media for four years. She also must perform 200 hours of community service.

 

[greg_r]

Travesty.

 

[buster]

Justice these days? What goes on in closed chambers often has nothing to do with justice. Cha Ching.

 

[buildit]

Don't forget to vote here and on election day.

 

[VThillman]

Pluses: She spent nearly a year in jail, and is now a convicted felon.

Minuses: The attack seems to be what 'information specialists' probably call an outlier. The motive(s), whatever they are, are contorted by the victim's mental condition and relative helplessness. It wasn't just a hate-crime, it was a WTHeck. Sort of like the mentality that turpentines a cat.

 

[SHOOTER13]

Yes, but we can fix it with better people as judges...

1st...Oust the Liberals Judge & Sherriff who let out Kate Steinle's killer...those scumbags !!


Beautiful Kate ====>

<==== 7x Deported Scumbag Killer

 

[buildit]

Another interesting development is police breaking or manipulating laws....

 

[Curmudgeon]

Another interesting development is police breaking or manipulating laws....

That is absolutely correct. Unfortunately there are way too many people that will "go along to get along", and that's exactly why this type of thing happens.

 

[RevV]

There is law, and there is justice.
Every once in a while they intersect.

 

[buildit]

Agree / Disagree? Article seems to be arguing the issue from two sides. 1. That picking at the easy targets at the bottom of the barrel weakens justice and produces racial issues. 2. That we need to be better at stopping high level crimes which would foster lower level criminals. Seems that I remember a time when busting low level criminals and threatening them with "hard time" was the way police received information on the high level criminals. But then the criminals were show cased by liberals as suffering too much so prison life was improved for them making prison less of a threat and more of a game.

Beyond the dollars spent, our failing criminal justice system contributes to our cultural decline, the breakdown of the traditional family and dependency on public assistance programs. The statistics documenting the failure of our system are unrivaled in human history. The United States today imprisons 1 in 100 residents and has 1 in 31 citizens on parole or probation.
The growth in criminalization has led to no measurable decrease in recidivism despite increasing our prison population tenfold. Government employment in criminal justice has grown by 1 million employees since 1980, as is noted by Michelle Alexander in “The New Jim Crow.” Amazingly, the call to continue to grow the government and perpetuate this failure is usually led by conservatives and supported by African-American leaders, from the president to our local mayors.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordeba...-in-america/a-failing-criminal-justice-system

 

[VThillman]

Those numbers are interesting. Some years ago I read opinions stating that two or three percent of the people in the US adult population were violent BGs (usually used to explain why there was more violent crime in urban areas than in rural areas; more people, more violent crime).

 

[buildit]

Those numbers are interesting. Some years ago I read opinions stating that two or three percent of the people in the US adult population were violent BGs (usually used to explain why there was more violent crime in urban areas than in rural areas; more people, more violent crime).

I would say urban areas have a different problem when it comes to violent crime because of the culture. I've actually witnessed that culture "infect" small Ohio towns, where violence was an issue only for drunks in the bar, making thug life street violence a reality in places where people never used to need to lock their doors.

 

[Spikedriver]

I agree with buildit for the most part, but would add that the meth plague has increased the crime in rural areas more than anything. It seems like nearly every small town robbery or murder leads back to meth in my area, and we've been luckier than a lot of places when it comes to combating it.