No surprise to the LEOs out there I'm sure, but here's the stats on crimes committed by people on parole or probation. Let your lawmakers know about this next time they want to pass more gun control:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/20000330_xcbtl_crime_and_.shtml
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Crime and punishment
A firestorm of protest has enveloped the Immigration and
Naturalization Service's handling of an illegal alien, Angel
Maturino Resendiz, also known as Rafael
Resendez-Ramirez, because he allegedly murdered four
more people in the United States after the INS Border
Patrol released him back to Mexico last June.
When released, he was wanted by the FBI, Texas
Rangers and Houston police for questioning about
several other murders.
Since his surrender July 13, he has been charged with
seven murders.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said the report painted a
picture of "Keystone Kops" and that the House
immigration subcommittee he chairs was investigating the
case and other crimes by deportable aliens who have
been released.
Pretty infuriating. But don't get too worked up over this
single incident. The truth is that the treatment of Resendiz,
or whatever his name is, by the INS is not exceptional
with regard to the way violent, murderous repeat
offenders are handled by the so-called justice system at
all levels.
For all the outrage expressed by politicians and activists
about gun control, there is a far better, more efficient,
constitutional way to cut down murders in this country by
one-third or, put another way, to save roughly 15 lives a
day.
One-third of all crime -- including homicide -- is
committed by felons on probation or parole.
To put this in perspective, the 1998 homicide count in the
U.S. was 16,914. That means about 5,638 people were
killed that year by criminals under government
"supervision." Divide that number by 365 and you get 15
murders a day -- all by people under government
"supervision."
Am I making up the statistics? No way. I'm using Janet
Reno's numbers.
The picture painted by the Department of Justice is, if
anything, bleaker than I am representing with regard to
the issue of recidivism -- repeat offenders.
"In 1991, 45 percent of state prisoners were persons
who, at the time they committed their offense, were under
conditional supervision in the community -- either on
probation or on parole," says a Justice Department
report. "Based on the offense that brought them to
prison, the 162,000 probation violators committed at
least 6,400 murders, 7,400 rapes, 10,400 assaults, and
17,000 robberies, while under supervision in the
community an average of 17 months."
But it gets even worse.
"Based on the offense that brought parolees back to
prison, these 156,000 offenders committed at least 6,800
murders, 5,500 rapes, 8,800 assaults and 22,500
robberies, while under supervision in the community an
average of 13 months," said the report.
The statistics are based on a national survey in which
personal interviews were conducted with 13,986 inmates
in 277 state correctional institutions. You paid for the
study, folks. It's time you learned the hard truth about
crime and punishment in your country.
Here are some other facts:
35 percent of state prison inmates in 1991 were
convicted of a new offense they committed while
on probation or parole;
30 percent of all offenders in state prison for a
violent crime were probation or parole violators;
collectively, probation and parole violators
committed 90,639 violent crimes while being
"supervised" in their community;
55 percent of probationers and parolees reported
that, in the month prior to their current offense,
they were using drugs -- 41 percent daily;
felony probationers and parolees are not permitted
to possess a firearm, yet 21 percent of probation
and parole violators imprisoned for a new offense
reported possessing a firearm while under
"supervision" of the government;
of probation and parole violators who owned or
possessed a handgun in the month before arrest,
almost three of every four were armed when they
committed their current offense;
Read it and weep, folks. If you want to do something
about the murder and mayhem infecting our cities, the
place to start -- it seems to me -- is with better
management of the violent offenders already under
supposedly strict government care.
For those of you who trust the government to protect you
and who are willing to give up your constitutional right to
bear arms, just look at the great job your would-be
benefactor is doing now.
Oh, by the way. How did I find out about this
little-known Justice Department report? It was sent to me
by Gail Keasling, mother of a child murdered by one of
those "supervised" felons.
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Seems like letting a violent felon out on probation or parole is about like signing someone's death warrant.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_btl/20000330_xcbtl_crime_and_.shtml
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Crime and punishment
A firestorm of protest has enveloped the Immigration and
Naturalization Service's handling of an illegal alien, Angel
Maturino Resendiz, also known as Rafael
Resendez-Ramirez, because he allegedly murdered four
more people in the United States after the INS Border
Patrol released him back to Mexico last June.
When released, he was wanted by the FBI, Texas
Rangers and Houston police for questioning about
several other murders.
Since his surrender July 13, he has been charged with
seven murders.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said the report painted a
picture of "Keystone Kops" and that the House
immigration subcommittee he chairs was investigating the
case and other crimes by deportable aliens who have
been released.
Pretty infuriating. But don't get too worked up over this
single incident. The truth is that the treatment of Resendiz,
or whatever his name is, by the INS is not exceptional
with regard to the way violent, murderous repeat
offenders are handled by the so-called justice system at
all levels.
For all the outrage expressed by politicians and activists
about gun control, there is a far better, more efficient,
constitutional way to cut down murders in this country by
one-third or, put another way, to save roughly 15 lives a
day.
One-third of all crime -- including homicide -- is
committed by felons on probation or parole.
To put this in perspective, the 1998 homicide count in the
U.S. was 16,914. That means about 5,638 people were
killed that year by criminals under government
"supervision." Divide that number by 365 and you get 15
murders a day -- all by people under government
"supervision."
Am I making up the statistics? No way. I'm using Janet
Reno's numbers.
The picture painted by the Department of Justice is, if
anything, bleaker than I am representing with regard to
the issue of recidivism -- repeat offenders.
"In 1991, 45 percent of state prisoners were persons
who, at the time they committed their offense, were under
conditional supervision in the community -- either on
probation or on parole," says a Justice Department
report. "Based on the offense that brought them to
prison, the 162,000 probation violators committed at
least 6,400 murders, 7,400 rapes, 10,400 assaults, and
17,000 robberies, while under supervision in the
community an average of 17 months."
But it gets even worse.
"Based on the offense that brought parolees back to
prison, these 156,000 offenders committed at least 6,800
murders, 5,500 rapes, 8,800 assaults and 22,500
robberies, while under supervision in the community an
average of 13 months," said the report.
The statistics are based on a national survey in which
personal interviews were conducted with 13,986 inmates
in 277 state correctional institutions. You paid for the
study, folks. It's time you learned the hard truth about
crime and punishment in your country.
Here are some other facts:
35 percent of state prison inmates in 1991 were
convicted of a new offense they committed while
on probation or parole;
30 percent of all offenders in state prison for a
violent crime were probation or parole violators;
collectively, probation and parole violators
committed 90,639 violent crimes while being
"supervised" in their community;
55 percent of probationers and parolees reported
that, in the month prior to their current offense,
they were using drugs -- 41 percent daily;
felony probationers and parolees are not permitted
to possess a firearm, yet 21 percent of probation
and parole violators imprisoned for a new offense
reported possessing a firearm while under
"supervision" of the government;
of probation and parole violators who owned or
possessed a handgun in the month before arrest,
almost three of every four were armed when they
committed their current offense;
Read it and weep, folks. If you want to do something
about the murder and mayhem infecting our cities, the
place to start -- it seems to me -- is with better
management of the violent offenders already under
supposedly strict government care.
For those of you who trust the government to protect you
and who are willing to give up your constitutional right to
bear arms, just look at the great job your would-be
benefactor is doing now.
Oh, by the way. How did I find out about this
little-known Justice Department report? It was sent to me
by Gail Keasling, mother of a child murdered by one of
those "supervised" felons.
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Seems like letting a violent felon out on probation or parole is about like signing someone's death warrant.