Posted on 11/27/2007 5:20:37 AM PST by JRochelle
How dare you tell the truth about Romney?
Don’t you know that he converted to conservatism last week?
And he only pretended to be a liberal for the last 60 years?
And he was never quite as far Left as Giuliani and Huckabee?
/s
Mitt should step down and let a real conservative go against Rudy
The Romney Record, it’s criminal.
No matter which state it is our prison systems are not designed to punish criminals, they are supposed to "rehab" them (liberal feel good crap). Due to the cost of housing them which varies by state, to relieve overcrowding the state governing bodies use 'safety values' and release them early for 'good' behavior. How good behavior is calculated varies by state. 68% reoffend.
Average serve time is 30%...victims must fight hard to keep the criminal in prison due to the 'over crowding'. The juvenile criminals cost twice as much to house as do the adult criminal. Thus we have fewer juvenile prison beds..it's cheaper to keep giving them probation and let them keep committing crimes until they turn 18 and can be dealt with as an adult.
6-7% of our population have been encarcerated or are encarcerated.
Then you get the NIMBY..(Not in my back yard) crowd so when victims get fed up and demand that their governments do something about the crime rate the government ends up doing nothing to build more prisons or add additional beds to existing ones due to the cost factor.
Basically this early release is no different that the catch and release of illegal aliens.
Due to the early release i.e. parole/probation systems we have according to the BJS over 12,000 additional murders per year.
Nationally the recidivism rate is 68%...this is over a decade old study. BTW the recidivisim rate was 64% when Slick Willie was president, and went up to 68% under his watch. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/rpr94.htm Reports on the reassert, reconviction, and reincarceration of former inmates who were tracked for 3 years after their release from prisons in 15 States in 1994. The former inmates represent two-thirds of all prisoners released in the United States that year. The report includes prisoner demographic characteristics (gender, race, Hispanic origin, and age), criminal record, types of offenses for which they were imprisoned, the effects of length of stay in prison on likelihood of reassert, and comparisons with a study of prisoners released in 1983.
Highlights include the following:
Released prisoners with the highest reassert rates were robbers (70.2%), burglars (74.0%), larcenists (74.6%), motor vehicle thieves (78.8%), those in prison for possessing or selling stolen property (77.4%), and those in prison for possessing, using, or selling illegal weapons (70.2%).
Within 3 years, 2.5% of released rapists were arrested for another rape, and 1.2% of those who had served time for homicide were arrested for homicide.
The 272,111 offenders discharged in 1994 had accumulated 4.1 million arrest charges before their most recent imprisonment and another 744,000 charges within 3 years of release.
I blame diversity. Race and gender trumps qualification.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWQzZmUwMDNjZDk0M2Y0ZjBhNmFhYzJjYTNmNzI5Zjc=
Apparently the crime rate went up and down simultaneously in Massachusetts!
‘‘The governor is going to have to explain his appointment, and the judge is going to have to explain her decision, but it’s not an isolated situation,’’ Giuliani told the Associated Press Saturday while on a campaign bus tour across New Hampshire. ‘‘Governor Romney did not have a good record in dealing with violent crime.’’
Rooty, Rooty, Rooty (head shaking). You have no room to talk buster. Some of YOUR judicial appointments are just as bad if not WORSE. Not to mention your own personal enabling and abetting of criminals in NYC under your (cough) rule as mayor.
Immigration politics have similarly harmed New York. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city’s sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. The INS, he claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to “terrorize people.” Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.
New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans—four of them illegal—abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS.
So Mr 'Sanctuary City', not only did you protect criminal Hispanic ILLEGALS, your 'hands off' policy enabled the 9-11 TERRORISTS to plan their attack in that now infamous Brooklyn Mosque. (Rooty shouldn't be running for POTUS, he should be running from the law and under indictment.)
Back to Rooty and his judges; there's been a few articles on the nincompoop bonehead affirmative action judges he picked and what they've done. The RATS will release that salvo when the time's right. It'll make Romney - or anyone - look Elliot Ness.
Not defending Romney, but Rooty is a complete phony on 'Law and Order' (no pun).
It’s a poor political trick to blame a governor, or president, or mayor for a mistake that some appointee made imo.
People will have fun with this for a while, but really, why is this Romney’s fault?
Deroy Murdock still pimping for Rudy911 ping.
More cherry-picking of stats, more bullsh** from Deroy.
I’ll give this scandal its fair due when I see
DEMOCRATS HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEIR JUDICIAL APPOINTEES DO.
You got it!
Yah know... I’m not a huge Romney fan, and I’m even a resident of Pierce county where these gruesome murders happened. But trying to pin this horrible event on Romney is just plain lame.
Does anyone actually take Deroy “Rudy is pro-life because abortions decreased while he was mayor” Murdock seriously???
I seem to recall that Giuliani appointed some real nuts.
And, of course, he appointed criminals as well.
Its a two person race, Romney and Guiliani.
Really?
I choose neither.
Yes, Romney should be ashamed of this appointment. He should have known that a woman would be soft on criminals. He should have foreseen the terrible result of female intuition. But alas, he is only an imperfect human.
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