Marshals Find a Convict Freed by Mistake

The fiscal extravagance and Hollywood melodrama of the Marshalls are well known but when they send a task force for a quick vacation to Miami Beach, the taxpayer and the Congressional budget people should really look at the spending practices of that agency. All they had to spend was the price of a phone call and fax the photos and prints. Either call the Marshalls in Miami or a sheriff. Maybe a new Attorney General will spend his department's funding on needed services and ensure they are properly spent???

Finding the derrieres responsible for his erroneous release and administering the long needed enemas could be even more melodramatic.

From what I hear from my father-in-law (Retired Detective Lieutenant) the Marshalls were useless. Your state and local law enforcement are much more effective. He said the Marshalls were as effective as Interpol.

Every year, U.S. Marshals arrest more federal fugitives than all other federal agencies combined. If I remember correctly, about 35,000 federal fugitives were arrested by Marshals last year. In addition, Marshals head up approximately 85 fugitive task forces nationwide that arrested approximately 30,000 of the countries MOST VIOLENT state felons last year. Since you can't prove a negative, there is no way to tell how many lives are saved by these arrests. But if you could prove it, I'll bet the number would be high. Your father-in-law must have the Marshals confused with some other agency. By the way, you spell Marshal with one "L".

Well Excalibur, put your sword away and try and hide your false vanity since it is evident that you are either a marshal or a marshal wannabe. The only thing you have correct is that the spelling was incorrect in the first posting. And as you are aware, but are misrepresenting to defend the marshals, is the fact that it is impossible for 84 United States Marshal and less than 400 Deputy Marshals to arrest 35,000 "federal fugitives." And then you credit this same 484 with the arrest of an additional "MOST VIOLENT" state felons. Not even in Matt Dillon's dreams. I don't know what color the sky is where you come from, but here on earth it's blue. The propaganda you are spewing to the public is taken from official agency documents and testimony to Senate and Congressional panels and committees, and they, like to hope they will, believe the spin the U.S. Marshals Service puts on their statistics. What the TRUTH is about that fiscal jockeying spin is that those numbers at best represent the number of warrants "CLEARED" not arrested. Now why don't you tell the people what cleared means in the jargon of the United States Marshals Service? In addition to the deceit of the marshals while seeking horrendous budget increases each year based on their false statistics they don't even mention that those numbers you have proposed also include the "clearing" of TRAFFIC WARRANTS issued by United States Magistrate/Judges pursuant to traffic citations issued by U. S. Park Police, Park Rangers, G.S.A. Security, as well as PARKING TICKET no shows issued by Federal agencies at and around Federal Airports and Buildings. But the dishonesty of the Marshal's Service goes even further and their deceit multiplied by the fact that in each federal judicial district the Office of the United States Marshal is the repository of ALL warrants issued by that court; hence the marshal holds all original warrants issued by all federal courts. It doesn't matter if the warrant was obtained pursuant to an investigation conducted by a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or by an Investigator with the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture; if a warrant was issued, the marshal keeps the original. It has gotten so bad in the marshal's service that they now count the arrest of most other agencies, by other agency's agents as that they, the marshals, have "cleared" those warrants. Another manipulation of numbers favored by the marshals and use very well before Congress to obtain unwarranted funding is when a person who is wanted on a warrant is stopped by a "blue coat" (patrol officer, policeman, traffic cop) for a routine matter. This officer has no sustainable charge against the individual by as a matter of protection and routine he runs the fellow through his departments communication department and determines that he is wanted on a federal warrant being "held by the U. S. Marshal" in the Souther District of the Virgin Islands. All very good and the guy is arrested and off the street. But who did the work? If you said the Cop, you're right; who risked his life, if you said the Cop you're right again. Who gets the credit and the funding and the bragging rights for the arrest, if you surmise the Marshal's Service you're again correct, and with out having to leave their doughnuts and coffee or risk their lives. It's criminal that the government allows them to steal the LEAP pay that they do not deserve. The only people who get hurt by this scam of the marshals are the federal taxpayers and the state taxpayers and the local taxpayers, because they are having to pay twice and in some instances three time for the same criminal to be arrested. Actually, and I hope to prepare a paper on it soon, their may be some very deep Constitutional issues involved in the operation and/or utilization of the marshals offices by the Justice Department or the very existence of a "Marshal's Service" itself. (not the Office of the United States Marshal) So, Excalibur, take your spin and play it to the Democrats who believe in government spending and misuse of taxpayer's funds, and big government but don't expect to pull the wool over the People's eyes forever.

There's a new invention called the paragraph.....

Thank-you. I tried to read it but had to stop.

Well w13gav, you must be FBI or an FBI wannabe. The outstanding performance of U.S. Marshals is clear. Stats from the past show that it cost U.S. Marshals about $113 per fugitive arrest and it cost FBI ABOUT 10K per fugitive. Not sure what the current stats are but I'm sure the spread will be similar. Pound for pound, no other agency delivers a bigger bang for the buck. Detailed records are routinely audited by OIG and DOJ to ensure that the numbers game you refer to doesn't happen. When warrants are cleared, the manner in which the arrest takes place is categorized and entered into the data base (arresting agency, street arrest, turned self in, etc.) Additionally, there are 94 U.S. Marshals (not 84) and over 4500 administrative and enforcement personnel, not 400. Also, fugitive task forces are augmented with hundreds of specially deputized local and state law enforcement officers. I agree that most all good things (law enforcement wise) emanate from the street cops. Nothing develops without them. They are the ones with their finger on the pulse of the street therefor, that is where the good info and tips come from. A primary reason for U.S. Marshals success is that they share the action, funding and credit with them, unlike other agencies. You are so far off base regarding funding, it's comical. Where do you come up with this stuff. This is the first year in decades that Marshals have made any headway budget wise. As far as your Constitutional issues go, remember that it was the framers of The Constitution who created the office of U.S. Marshal. They bestowed on the office, the very broad powers you most likely take issue with. Go take it up with them.