Budget Cuts Impact Murder Investigations
It was a tough decision. But Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was up to the task. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is well known for making the tough decisions. Like determining which news reporters to sleep with so his wife won't find out. Like determining which foreign cities to tour for his weekly vacations while pretending that this is work related. Like determining what pretext he can use to speed up the
The City of Los Angeles is running short of funds. Since it is obvious to everyone except the politicians, (that all the elected officials are in the pocket of the unions and special interest groups), that something must be done to force the taxpaying public to to give up everything they own to the city to prevent the bankruptcy of this great welfare city of ours. The politicians seem to have come up with a solution that is finding favor at the state levels where politicians are also trying to come up with the best way to punish the
The politicians at the state level have decided that giving violent criminals early release from prison is a great way to save money. The City of Los Angeles, a leader in innovation, has decided that you don't have to release violent criminals early if you never arrest them. In a budget saving cost cutting measure, the City of Los Angeles, is preventing police from investigating murders.
This will teach the
They don't actually care which crimes they "solve" or even if a crime was committed at all (as is often the case with plea-bargains), so long as it counts as a conviction in the D.A.'s stats. Crimes like jaywalking and smoking pot require much less work per conviction, and so many more people commit them. If they limited themselves to serious crime there just wouldn't be enough (since serious crime is down to about a third of the level of 20 years ago, per FBI stats) to look like they're "tough on crime" -- the war cry of re-election. And then we'd realise that we actually have too many cops, since most of them don't have any real crimes to solve and are spending their time chasing pot smokers and manning driver checkpoints (wouldn't want the proles to get any ideas, like that it's a free country or something).
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, there's no profit to be had from arresting murderers. The law doesn't allow the cops to confiscate the suspect's assets the way it does if you're accused of selling pot. So a murderer is worth nothing. Conversely a good pot-grower bust and civil asset forfeiture can net tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in salable assets.
Morever, about half the prisons in CA are privately run, for profit. They don't want murderers and other troublemakers taking up space, when for the same money they can have a meek and manageable pot grower. Naturally the corporate prisons prefer that the cops only enforce laws against trivial crimes, to keep their profits at the max.