Tag Archives: Crime/Punishment/Justice
Only 5 years probation for murder of son’s rapist
Old School!
Knockout Game Girl Defends Attackers
Lol. @5:30 – Knockout game is “another reason we need to better support our youth.”
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Trayvon Martin was a wannabe Gangsta
Glad the jury found him not guilty. Troubled by how much the angry mob of US society influenced this case.
Arresting Children
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.
#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.
#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.
#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.
#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.
#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.
#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school. It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples. So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this? The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.
#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.
#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.
#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.
#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.
#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police. The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….
“Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old”.
#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor and tasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.
#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom. The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.
#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.
#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.
#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.
HERE ARE THE LINKS FOR THOSE WHO FEEL THIS PAGE MADE ALL THIS UP: (thanks Kara)
abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=15077292
Check out this video on YouTube:
m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world&type=article
www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1
www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/11/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with/
m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world&type=article
www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html
m.tauntongazette.com/wkdTGazette/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Mateo-pays-family-of-boy-pepper-sprayed-by-cop-2384518.php
www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cops-called-for-school-kiss-657831
Supreme Court: Cops are NOT required to protect you
Robert Murphy — Prisons in a free society
Robert Murphy is one of the most under-appreciated minds today. He has a stage, but deserves much bigger one.
Study of Crime Data
* Both murders and violent crimes dropped by half over the last 20 years in the US
* Most crimes happen in small communities within large cities
* Though a lower murder rate, Britain’s violent crime rate is double that of the US’s
* The Big Media is useless
No Consequences for Lying About Rape After 9-year False Imprisonment
Amsterdam is to create “Scum villages” where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city
Segregation is much more civilized than imprisonment.
Holland’s capital already has a special hit squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six month course in how to behave.
Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness. 
(Read more)
Grants Pass, Oregon Releases Inmates After Budget Cuts Leave County With ‘No Other Alternative’
Dozens of inmates ran whooping from a small town jail into the sunshine Wednesday after a cash-strapped county in Oregon’s timber region was forced to release them amid budget cuts.
The sheriff’s office released 39 inmates, dropping the population at the jail in Grants Pass to 60 – half of them federal prisoners held on contract.
“We had no other alternative based on our funding predicament,” said Josephine County Undersheriff Don Fasching. “We are very concerned for public safety.”
About half of those released will finish their sentences on work crews. The rest were waiting for trial.
The most common charges were for drug crimes, minor assaults, burglary, identity theft and probation violations. (Read more)
Big Crime / Small Crime
Israel to revive razing of homes as form of punishment
Ehud Barak, Israel’s increasingly hawkish defence minister, approved an intelligence recommendation to demolish the houses of Hakim and Ajmad Awad, two cousins from the Palestinian village of Awarta.
The decision, the first of its kind in nearly seven years, will render the wives and children of both men homeless.
The two Palestinians are serving life sentences for the murders of Ehud and Ruth Fogel, as well as three of their six children, in the West Bank settlement of Itamar in March, 2011.
The dead included a three-month-old infant and a four-year-old boy stabbed to death in a frenzied attack that horrified Israel.
The Israeli authorities abandoned the once common practice of punitive demolitions in 2005 after facing heavy international criticism. (Read more)
Arguing Against the State is like Playing Chess with a Pigeon
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops
This is from way back in 2000, but it remains relevant. It speaks to the larger point that government are crappy providers of security. They inevitably value obedience over the safety of their population.
See my essay on the state monopoly of violence here.
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. (Read more)